• Starring: Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart
  • Summary: Dr. Charles Xavier gathers children from all over the planet who were born with an added twist to their genetic code. Known as the "X-factor" these children can perform extraordinary feats. Dr. Xavier calls them his X-Men.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 33
  2. Negative: 3 out of 33
  1. Reviewed by: Cody Clark
    90
    The best kind of summer blockbuster -- the kind that makes you immediately crave a sequel.
  2. Reviewed by: Steve Simels
    60
    Stylish, exciting and an occasionally poignant sci-fi adventure spectacle.
  3. Superhero comic book movie with a script so feeble it might have been written with crayons.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 33
  2. Negative: 3 out of 33
  1. The beginning, we see a very promising epic motion picture that makes us watch it till the end. Then in the middle of the movie everything is okay and explained, and we become to like this movie. And now the movie is about to end, and we're like dafuq? Why so rushed ending? It ruins it all. But overall, this is a good film. Expand
    • 5 of 5 users said yes
  2. 5
    An interesting and well made comic book movie, with intelligent social commentary and decent action, but ultimately one that doesn't lead anywhere, and ends up feeling like it exists just to build to something we don't get to see (the sequel). Expand
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  3. JerkGuy
    1
    This film wasn’t great at all it was garbage, pure garbage, a massive disappointment, they changed so much and left out so much that I don’t even regard it as an X-Men film, story or whatever you want to call it. I’ll give the film a 1 for the casting since it was on a general note really good except for Ian McKellen as Magneto, Magneto is meant to be intimidating, and Ian McKellen just looked like a senile old man that escaped from his old folks home in that costume. This film is really crap whether you’re a massive X-Men fan like me or if you’re discovering X-Men for the first time. Just off the top of my head I could take any great X-Men saga and it would have made a better film, i.e. A great first X-Men film would have been better done around the President Kelly assassination plot; this would have involved a mutant from the future named Bishop going back in time to our present day to prevent a mystery mutant from assassinating President Kelly thus causing the war between humans and mutants. This would have worked really well because you could have introduced all the X-Men characters to new comers through Bishop meeting and becoming an X-Men, it would have firmly established the tensions between man and mutant, it would have established there is good and bad mutants, and above all else it would have made more sense then just Magneto wanting to kill all humans with some stupid aura thing. Expand
    • 1 of 3 users said yes

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