X-Men

Name: X-Men
Genre: Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
Released: 2000-07-13
Duration: 104 min

Trust a few. Fear the rest.

20001h 44mcritics 7.0/10

AdventureActionScience Fiction

Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.

starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen

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Read from 51 comments (46 from Metacritic, 5 from TMDB reviews) — 10 of them described how it moves.

➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Pulled both ways throughout — never simply one thing. Around the middle it was tender and painful at the same time, which is the state people mean by being moved. Very little of it ever resolves.

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Metacritic47 read

“one slow motion standout sequence which you will want to see many times”
badshapedabout 50–75% inread it ↗
“excellent intensity that it maintains from beginning to end both for the plot content and for the action”
BM7about 0–100% inread it ↗
“The pace and editing of the past and future timelines are top-notch and create great amounts of tension.”
BigYeedusabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“the prison break-out scene is one of the best in the series”
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TMDB3 read

“X-Men is a milestone in cinema history. Without it being actually good and such a smash success, we wouldn't be enjoying the comic book movie world that rules the box office today. The approach of X-Men was the right one. It told a relevant human story about prejudice, treating the source material respectfully and seriously. It's legacy may be greater than the actual movie, but X-Men is x-cellent!”
tmdb44006625read it ↗
“Decent watch, might watch again, and can recommend. This is not a good "comic book movie", but as a stand alone story, it's decent if derivative. Just pretend I did a whole rant about how this isn't like the comics, we're both better off this way. There are a lot good points like balancing the characters and stars in a way that was lauded way more in Avengers later on because everyone liked those characters better and there was some definite "oomph" to the Avengers franchise that the X-”
Kamurairead it ↗
“<em>'X-Men'</em> is very good. Another franchise I'm checking out for the first time, despite knowing about it for a number of years. This is a positive opener, there is a lot to feel entertained by for sure. Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) is the star of the show, though Patrick Stewart (Professor X) and Ian McKellen (Magneto) are solid too. Intrigued to check out the sequels and the subsequent other productions. /copied directly from my Letterboxd review\”
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