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Rating:  -
What Singer does well is give the film a feeling grounded in reality. His "Star Trek" approach to X-men is unique and the cinematography of the film is beautiful. I love the openings of the film with magneto and rogue. I feel that everyone got a decent amount of time on screen and the performances from xaiver and magento couldn't have been better. They were brilliant. My major complaint for this movie is the way the character Rogue is portrayed. In the comic she is a strong and wild spirit with the ability to fight and strength that is equal to super woman. She is tormented by her own inner conflicts because she came to the x-men as a former villain. This made her very untrustworthy to the x-men and she was haunted with guilt for being a villain. Her greatest sin was purposely using her power to hurt another. Her whole purpose in joining the x-men was for one thing: REDEMPTION! This created a very strong and interesting character but in the movie she's a pathetic damsel in distress. She has no strength, none of the strong female attitude and sassiness. She's not a former villain and basically just wants to be able to kiss a boy again; SHE IS THE COMPLETE OPPOPSITE OF THE COMIC!! And because of this, I find this movie faulted, although her role is necessary and the end with wolverine saving her is very touching. It just frusturates me because it seems like the film makers have combined the jubilee/kitty pride role into rogue, when rogue was such a great character with a great story, especially the angle of her coming to the team as a former villain and as a mutant that purposely used her powers for evil and now, seeks redemption. Yes, the incident with the boy at the beginning of the film happened but that is no where near what weighed so heavily on rogue's heart; it was the act of her PURPOSELY hurting another that did, NOT ACCIDENTALLY KISSING A BOY AND PUTTING HIM IN A COLMA!! Also wolverine and sabertooth don't even exchange one word!! These guys are supposed to be arch enemies, what the hell!? People complain to me about the new Wolverine movie (which I thought was okay, better than x2) and how the ending of that film makes no sense with having sabertooth still know wolverine. BUT WAIT, in x1 sabertooth grabs wolverine's dog tag off magneto's desk like he knew him, like he recollected something in his mind and wanted his trophy! THEY WENT NO WHERE WITH THIS!! So the wolverine movie had to play off that little gesture because while wolverine doesn't remember sabertooth, sabertooth remembers wolverine. The story of the film is great and it has that true x-men spirit, I just see no reason why rogue's attitude and story had to be changed because it has nothing to do with budget (maybe rogue's flying and strength but not her strong attitude and her yearning for redemption, they made her a weakling who just wants a kiss!). This movie is a 4.0 of 5 for me because I can forgive everything except what they did to Rogue (they even butcher her character more in x2!)
Rating:  -
The movie is in great conditon. It had no scratches or anything like that. It came quickly in the mail the only problem with it is that the box was slightly damaged but the seller told me that it was damaged before I bought it, and I'm glad that the seller informed of it. It didn't make me hesitate at because it's just a box and not the actual movie that is damaged.
Rating: -
The reason I use that statement as my review title is that, while this film is good, much like `Spider-Man' and `Batman Begins', this film is trumped massively by the sequel. That aside, this film is still very good for the genre that it finds itself in. Superhero movies can be hard to make because there are so many devoted fans to please, and there is no way that one can perfectly transfer a comic book to the big screen. Still, as far as they come, this is one of the better installments.
It's a shame that the third film was such a cluttered mess (it's still better than `Spider-Mess 3').
This film establishes the conflict between former friends Professor Xavier (Professor X) and Magneto, formerly known as Eric Lensherr. Lensherr, facing prejudice his entire life, suffers greatly at the hands of an unkind and unsympathetic human race, who regard mutants as below them and continue to misunderstand and mistreat them. Xavier and Lensherr, once comrades, are now rivals as their viewpoints on the world have begun to contradict one another. Xavier believes in patience, for he feels that humans are universally good and that they will learn to accept mutants as equals, but Lensherr has grown to despise humanity and feels that the only key to happiness would be a human-free (and mutant inhabited) world.
Thus sets the basis for the first installment in the X-Men franchise, and as Xavier's school for mutants and Magneto's band of thugs set off in search of the same girl, a young mutant named Rogue, chaos ensues.
That good kind of action sequence chaos.
When it comes to superhero films, the most important (or one of the most important) things to consider is the cast. You have leagues of devoted fans waiting to put a face to the hero they have followed for years, and so `nailing' that aspect of the film is key. For a film that is littered with heroes and villains, `X-Men' definitely has some inspired casting. For any fan of the comic, I think there was only ONE choice for Professor X, and they got that one right. Near unknowns (I say near because they weren't, and still aren't, BIG NAME stars) Famke Janssen and James Marsden filled out their respective roles very nicely (Janssen is a perfect Jean Grey) and Oscar winner Anna Paquin was the perfect choice for Rogue. Ian McKellen is perfect as Magneto, and while I find that Storm didn't have much to chew on, Berry was a nice (if a tad obvious) choice.
But seriously, this is the film that introduced Hugh Jackman to the world, and no matter how awesome the rest of the cast may be, Wolverine was the most important casting decision, and Jackman is absolutely outstanding!
It lacks the polish of `X2: United', but it sets a nice tone for the franchise and really works in the origin stories without feeling rushed, stuffed or forced. There is plenty of action, drama, romance and wit; and a naked blue Rebecca Romijn serves up some oddly stimulating eye-candy. For what it is, this movie is pretty great. I'd give it a solid B+, verging on an A-.
Rating:  -
I used to watch The X Men animated show back in the early to late 90's I always wondered what a live action movie would be like in 2000 we found out it stared Hugh Jackman as Wolverine Patrick Stewart as Professor X Ian McKellen as Magneto & Tyler Mane as Sabertooth which was 1 of Mane's 1st big roles. On with the story Magneto wants to start a Human Mutant war he wants to infect humans with a plague that can mutate & kill them they also used it on Senator Robert Kelly & he died. He also finds out about this girl named Rouge who has bonded with Wolverine he's like a father to her when Wolverine is sleeping he is having flashbacks of a war he can't rember his past Rouge is checking on him & he accidentally sticks a claw into her side she uses her power & steals Wolverine's instant healing ability. Mystique a shape shifter & 1 of Magneto's people that she isn't wanted she feels responsible & runs away. Wolverine joins the X Men there going to stop Magneto & save Rouge.
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DVD shipped when you said and received in good shape. Watched it the same day. Love the X Men movies and plan to get them all (again). This was a replacement of stolen DVD. Thanks good price and fast service.
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