X-Men (2000)
Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 155
Fresh: 127 | Rotten: 28
Faithful to the comics and filled with action, X-Men brings a crowded slate of classic Marvel characters to the screen with a talented ensemble cast and surprisingly sharp narrative focus.
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 14
Faithful to the comics and filled with action, X-Men brings a crowded slate of classic Marvel characters to the screen with a talented ensemble cast and surprisingly sharp narrative focus.
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One of the most popular superhero teams in comic book history finally comes to the screen in this big-budget adaptation of the long-running Marvel Comics series. Psychic Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) leads a school of skilled mutants called X-Men, a peacekeeping force to safeguard the world against a race of genetically mutated humans known as Homo Sapiens Superior. However, Magneto (Ian McKellen), a mutant with a powerful magnetic charge, has also begun to organize a team to strike first
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Cast
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Hugh Jackman
Wolverine -
Patrick Stewart
Prof. Charles Xavier -
Ian McKellen
Magneto -
Famke Janssen
Jean Grey -
James Marsden
Cyclops -
Halle Berry
Storm -
Anna Paquin
Rogue -
Tyler Mane
Sabretooth -
Ray Park
The Toad -
Rebecca Romijn
Mystique -
Bruce Davison
Senator Kelly -
Matthew Sharp
Henry Guyrich -
Brett Morris
Young Magneto -
Stan Lee
Hotdog vendor -
Alex Burton
Pyro/John
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All Critics (155) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (132) | Rotten (30) | DVD (54)
The most beautiful, strange, and exciting comic-book movie since the original Batman.
Top CriticX-Men plays like a so-so middle chapter of an epic series rather than a fitting kickoff.
Apart from the brushed metal production design and pin-sharp camerawork, this offers only moderate excitement.
It's a rich, impressive comic-book fantasy.
All these characters with their odd powers are inherently absurd and they throw a barrel of wrenches into the machinery of a coherent narrative.
A rarity, a comic-book movie with a satisfying cinematic design and protagonists you want to watch.
The deft way that Singer and company have transferred the action comics to the big screen reps one of the best efforts since Superman II.
These are superheroes who largely regret their powers because of the trouble that they bring.
Of course, the wide-open ending practically shrieks "sequel," so rest assured this is only the beginning of a new super-franchise. Here's hoping Joel Schumacher doesn't get his hands on it.
X-Men's myriad of positive attributes generally compensate for its less-than-enthralling stretches.
Comic-book adaptation has brains, brawn, and style.
Good direction and talented ensemble
A very good comic book adaptation with great performances, true entertainment value, and wonderful direction...
A superb cast and spotless direction from Bryan Singer make this one a summer must-see, and a film that goes right alongside the first Batman and Superman as genre bests.
As summer movies go, X-Men is remarkably crisp and economical.
Relative newcomer Hugh Jackman is a real find as the brooding Wolverine.
Simply a fluffy, big screen version of a simple comic book -- nothing more, nothing less.
What makes this film such a success is its seriousness on the subject of proper and improper responses to oppression, its unique and memorable characters, its cleverness and visual imagination, and its refusal to degenerate into a bloodbath.
Superior to any Batman except the 1989 movie.
Finally, a movie based on a comic book that actually succeeds.
Audience Reviews for X-Men
Super Reviewer
Singer begins his film with a grim sequence from Poland overrun by Nazis. This prologue is captivating and interesting beginning to a much broader storyline which Singer and his co-writers Tom DeSanto and David Hayter has created. Still Singer and his team cannot make X-Men truly alive as a film and somehow it feels more of an pilot-episode of an TV-show than feature film.
First twenty minutes into this film are pretty damn good filmmaking but after that the film begins to go slowly downhill until it ends with a whimper. I understand that it is supposed to be only beginning of a trilogy but i've seen films that are made into trilogies and they have still worked on their own. That is something that X-Men cannot accomplish, it just does not work on its own and suffers from lacking a any truly memorable set pieces. It is just too average as a film.
There are nice elements here and there. Especially Hugh Jackman's performance as a Wolverine is the films strongest aspect when it comes to acting and veterans like Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen on the opposite side of the mutant teams is delicious aspect also.
Visually one of the films greatest elements is Dr. Xaviers futuristic Cerebro-machine which serves this film its single most amazing moment.
So overall there are things that does work and then there are things which just doesn't. It is better than most of the comic book adaptations but it falls short on being amongst the best of them.
Super Reviewer
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- Magneto: Let's point those claws of yours into a safer direction.
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- Magneto: Lets just say God works too slowly.
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- Rogue: When they come out does it hurt?
- Wolverine: Every time.
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- The Toad: Don't you people ever die?
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- Wolverine: Hey, it's me.
- Cyclops: Prove it.
- Wolverine: You're a dick.
- Cyclops: Okay.
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- Storm: Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else.
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