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X-Men (2000)
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Reviews Counted: 143
Fresh: 115
Rotten:28
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Consensus: The story is faithful to the comic books and, while the movie may be too Wolverine centered, it packs a freaky punch that is sure to excite the average summer moviegoer.
Theatrical Release: Jul 14, 2000 Wide
Box Office: $6,762,378
Synopsis: Based on the long-running Marvel comic book series, X-MEN takes place in the near future, as certain humans are evolving into mutants with special powers. In the Canadian wilderness, a young runaway mutant named Rogue (Anna Paquin) and... [More]
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen
Director: Bryan Singer
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11/01/07
Top Critic
X-Men plays like a so-so middle chapter of an epic series rather than a fitting kickoff.
04/17/07
Top Critic Apart from the brushed metal production design and pin-sharp camerawork, this offers only moderate excitement.
06/24/06
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.
01/15/05
Not as disturbingly dark as Batman, but yet it still has the hard gritty edge that keeps the audience riveted to the screen.
04/29/03
All these characters with their odd powers are inherently absurd and they throw a barrel of wrenches into the machinery of a coherent narrative.
04/25/03
Top Critic Singer was wise enough to keep the fight scenes silent instead of featuring the usual inane banter of most comic-book movies.
04/04/03
A rarity, a comic-book movie with a satisfying cinematic design and protagonists you want to watch.
01/16/03
Top Critic Somebody, at least, made sure that a movie based on a comic book wasn't a comic book on screen, but instead, thankfully, just a really good movie.
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