When X-Men came out in 2000, it revived the superhero genre. Soon, in the 2000s, more superhero films appeared, and most were big hits: the Spider-Man series, Iron Man series, Hulk series, and the rebooted Batman series are probably the most, best known. But X-Men was the movie that proved the superhero genre would live on—and to great success.
Spawning a franchise, X-Men is still not a top notch superhero movie. The movie is about how several people with separate abilities, called mutants, are becoming more abundant across the world. Some fight for evil and join the evil Magneto, the film’s primary antagonist, and others join the good side, led by Professor Xavier, one of the film’s primary protagonists.
The first half of the movie was good, introducing the plot and characters well and getting the movie, and series, off to a good start. But the second half of the movie falters under too much action and comic book fare that isn’t all that great on the screen, and messes up the first half. I’ve seen this exact same thing happen to numerous films.
X-Men isn’t an overwhelmingly great superhero movie by all means, but it was generally a good one and showed that the audiences were still willing to go see superhero movies—and look how many successful superhero movies are out now.
Grade: B-
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