The X-Men

by Dr. Jamey Jausey

While this movie was good, it was not as good as I had hoped for. The special effects were great but two few and too far apart. As an X-men fan myself, for many years, I followed the story knowing how they came to be the X-Men and the lives they have lived in the comic books. I could see where they stayed true to the comic book and where they deviated.

They had a good story line to tell and I think they did a good job of telling it - I think was the problem. It was too much story and not enough X-Men! The plot involving the next step in human evolution and genetic mutation was told in a relevant way by using the situations the reflect the real prejudices of today. As well as it was told I wanted more action!

The trailer had all these excellent special effects that made me think it would be wall to wall action so I was a little let down. I also think they left to many key X-Men out of the movie, The X-Men are not just those four people that make up the X-Men movie. I missed Dr. Henry McCoy, he is in my opinion one of the main brains in the comic book. Patrick Stewart was excellent as Xavier and the directorial work of Bryan Singer is top notch.

This however doesn't matter the movie it's self is good enough to hold it's on in the box office, with a $57.5 million launch the makers of X-Men are sure to recoup the $75 million they spent on making the film. Once I got over the disappoint of the movie not being what I thought it should have been and thinking about what the film is, I find myself liking it a little more and more. It wont ever be one of my favorites but it a good film to kill a few hours with.