Review – X-Men

Ah, the things I’ll do to see at least one movie beginning with each letter of the alphabet. Actually, this one wasn’t as hard to sit through as some of the other unwatchable trash I’ve endured for a Q, X, Y or Z. Perhaps it helped to have been an X-Men fan many years ago (before they became the “new” X-Men and added the majority of the characters featured in this picture). The plot involves the battle long familiar to fans: the three-way struggle between good mutants who want to help mankind (or at the very least to be left alone), evil mutants who want to enslave the world, and ordinary people who treat both camps with more than a little mistrust. The effects were skillfully done (which is a good thing because bad effects probably would have killed the action), and the script and acting were nowhere near as bad as they might have been. Though I think alienated teens looking for characters with whom they can identify will most likely take to the message a bit more than I did, the movie’s still enjoyable on a comic-book entertainment level. Mildly amusing