I did like it a lot, BUT....

Rating: Null/10 (2 May 2003)

Yes, it is a great movie, I have seen X-Men twice by the time I write this. I have also for decades followed lots of sc-fi stuff. Including X-Men and yes, Star Trek in all its incarnations. Let me tell you the what I didn't like of the movie:
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General Stryker has for many years has studied the mutant factor going on. And when he invades Xavier's School, he does it with pop guns that shoot stupid darts. Wouldn't masive gas dosages helped? Like what they did at Magnetos plastic cage to knock him and the profesor too?. Stryker knows his mutants but has NO defense against them even though he knows them so well that he has enhanced Wolverine (and others). He has the technology to build a second Cerebro, but not the man power, the inteligence, the know-how to stop one simple mutant. Ok.. thats one. I don't like what they have done to Rouge. They have destroyed the character compleatly. Burried her on the background. It won't matter a bit if they introduce Gambit on the third movie, they would concentrate on the Gambit-Wolverine dule of wits. And the best part: A lot of similarities with Star Trek 2 and Star Trek: Nemesis. Fans will recognize the final scene, same words on the death of Data, even here spoken by Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier/Captain Picard. Worse, his final words are like Captain Kirk's hope for the best on the death of Spock and the final images of the lake are on the same order of the Nemesis planet and the torpedo that carried Spocks body to the planet. This is Hollywood repeating it's self again and again. Star Trek 2 leading to a Star Trek 3. Back to the Future 2 cliffhanging for part 3. Empire Strikes back leaving you in suspense for 3 years waiting for Return of the Jedi and last but not least, that is what is going to happen with Matrix 2 which we know by now that it will end in a cliffhanger that will conclude on part 3.
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Anyway, I liked the movie cause it is a showcase for mutant power and they kick butt. I do believe as some that Hollywood will give us water downed version of the Phoenix Saga plus maybe Apocalipse. But my best bet is that they will go for the full monty and show us the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants fully ensambled (Pyro, Blob, Avalanche), plus Gambit and Beast.