X-Men (2000)

The most popular comic book characters since the 90's finally make their film debut the way you'd pretty much expect it to be: assemble of familiar characters, a lot of cool superpowers and special effects and a story about saving the world from a really evil villain and his nasty henchmen.

Those expecting a lot of action will probably be dissapointed - there isn't a whole lot of comic book-style violence and fighting going on here. Yes, there is a showdown between the good guys and the bad guys but it's unoriginal, poorly directed and predictable. In effort to make a film like this appealing to the general movie-going, non-comic book-reading public, the Hollywood hotshots made it a bit too tame. Maybe a little Joel Schumacher "Batman"-style campiness would have made it more fun. A better screenplay would have helped too, the entire story seems like a big prelude to nothing.

Nevertheless, I'm sure kids will love the movie but it doesn't have that certain charm that will appeal to the kid in us all... not all of us at least.

GRADE: B- 

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