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1.5 X-TREME DVD!
The long-awaited comic book-to-film translation of X Men left some fans satisfied and some wanting more. There are some terrific action scenes and great characters. Veterans Patrick Stewart (Charles Xavier) and Ian McKellen (Magneto) are terrific, as are Hugh Jackman's Wolverine and Tyler Mane as Sabertooth. The Special Effects in the film are inventive and amazing. My favourite SFX moment: Where Magneto is walking across a pathway created by moving metallic planks across a chasm, the pinnacle of cool. Brian Singer's take on the classic X Men comic is a fun, action-filled film with great characters and eye-popping SFX. Director Singer (The Usual Suspects, Apt Pupil) has created a film which is inventive and exciting while staying true to the comic's origins.
The main star of the film is Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, a rouge mutant who joins Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart)'s team of mutants including Cyclops, Storm and Dr. Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) who are pitted against metal-moving menace Magneto (Ian McKellen), the head honcho of bad guys with a plan to turn the world's population into mutants.
Wolverine is the main guy here, as Jackman proves to be perfect for the role of the hairy guy with some nasty claws. The star power of McKellen and Patrick Stewart gives the film it's gravitas, and the supporting cast of Tyler Mane as the imposing Sabertooth and Ray Park as Toad combine to create a great ensamble cast abbeted with a great script to work with.

Seamless CG combined with impressive live-action stunts is awesome, and the film's strong point, action, is well-paced and exciting, with a string of set-pices building up to the huge and amazing finale. The score, by Michael Kamen is a pulse-driven soundtrack that fits the film's style and tone well. Michael Kamen's futuristic score (one of his best) adds to the mysterious tone. There are problems; the film does centre around Wolverine too much, making you want a bit more exposition on the other charcters and their backgrounds, and the film's running time makes the viewer want more, but hey, that's what sequels are for, and the next instalment will no doubt be worth the wait...

One of the most eagerly-awaited DVDs does not dissapoint, with plenty of extra 'making of's and on-set footage. The highlight is 'The Evolution', six featurettes played as one long journey from the film's begginings to the release and box office success. Other interesting segments include X-Factor: The Look of the X-Men, Special Effects of the X-Men and reflections of the X-Men. For the film itself, you can watch it in 5 different modes: Theatrical Version, Director's Commentary, and 3 enhanced viewing modes with re-incorperated deleted scenes put back in and 17 Behind the Scenes segments. Also included is a sneak preview of X-2 and the trailer for Daredevil, X-2 and Activision's "Wolverine's Revenge". Well worth it, and I can't wait until X-2 gets on DVD...

Utterly disappointed.
First off, I'm not going to say anything about the quality of the video or anything, because I'm not concerned with things like that.

I got X-Men and X-Men2, along with another movie, at a Used Sale, all for about $10. I had never seen any of these movies, and, as a fan of the recent animated series, X-Men Evolution, I decided to give the movies a try.
And maybe my expectations were too high, but I thought that they were both horrific movies. The acting was okay. Hugh Jackman was an excellent choice for Wolverine, and he did a nice job. Ian McKellen also did very well as Magneto, I think. The rest of the acting was mediocre to upsetting.

Not only that, the characters barely had any personality. All the viewer knows about Jean Grey is that she's smart and pretty and nice. Scott Summers (Cyclopes) loves Jean. (That's really the only emotion that he is allowed to show.) Rogue is a little girl frightened of her powers. Logan (Wolverine) is a tough cookie. Everything the movie tells us about them is just simple, stereotypical, on-the-surface facts. The characters have no individual personality. They all seem to have the same sense of humor, say the same things... blah blah blah. So the script was terrible.

The one thing I can give you is that the story was great, but credit to that goes to the comic. So. I'll have to take that compliment back. There was absolutely nothing good about this movie.

Well... the computer graphics were pretty good.

One of the best DVDs
X-Men 1.5 is a definite improvement over the first release, which wasn't that bad either. This has the fabulous movie adapting the mutant comic book characters, the uncanny X-Men, onto the big screen. Wolverine is played by Hugh Jackman, Professor Charles Xavier by Patrick Stewart, Storm by Halle Berry, Magneto by Ian McKellen, Toad by Ray Park, Mystique by Rebecca Romjin-Stamos, and Jean Grey by Famke Janssen. All deliver great performances, and other X-Men such as Cyclops and Sabretooth also play good roles, played by lesser known actors.

The DVD delivers with crisp, incredible-sounding audio in Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 soundtracks. Incredible picture quality is delivered, THX-certified, widescreen 2.35.:1 letterbox. The special features certainly deliver, with interesting audio commentaries, a teaser trailer for Daredevil, and a behind-the-scenes look at X2: X-Men United.
A worthy buy in any serious collector's collection.

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