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Jane Carver, Texas, USA writes:
X-Men is a one-time
movie. Everyone will go see what it’s about, but it isn’t good enough to see
twice. The action is choppy; the plot jumps. The school for mutants and all
related to it could have been left out. Just make it the Professor and the
X-Men. Dr. Grey could have been left out as well; she was only there as a weak
love interest for Wolverine. There were all sorts of comments about Wolverine’s
lack of memory and him going to Alaska to find out something about himself, but
again, I felt like I had come into the middle of an interesting story, but I
never got any more than a glimpse of it.
At times, I felt the evil henchmen for Magneto had
more going for them than the hero mutants. It was amazing that Rebecca
Romijn-Stamos did the part of Mystique because few will recognize her name, and
no one ever sees her true face. Sometimes, it seemed that the X-Men took too
long to get their act together. Call me "slow" but it took forever to
grasp why Magneto wanted Rogue.
The
last two scenes should have been reversed. The last scene with Magneto and
Professor X in the plastic cell implied that the political war regarding mutants
would go on no matter what the X-Men did or didn’t do. The next to the last
scene with Rogue and Wolverine showed him leaving to go on his quest to Alaska.
He leaves his dog tags with Rogue as a promise he will return. He goes outside,
smiles that smirky little grin, swipes Cyclops’s motorcycle and rides off into
the sunset. That’s how the show should have ended. The audience would have
been promised more X-Men adventures, even if another show were never made.
The
only chemistry in the show happened between Rogue and Wolverine. Their
encounters were the only time the show seemed to flow, and the characters were
real. The only scene that grabbed me and made me part of the show was when
Wolverine released Rogue from the metal stands and realized she was either dead
or dying. Wolverine showed emotion as he pulled off his glove and touched her,
knowing she would draw his healing powers into herself and could very well kill
him in the process. And that ended the only real flow in the movie with
Wolverine apparently dead after saving Rogue.
I’m
glad I saw the movie; it was worth the price of an early show. But I was
disappointed in the end.
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