An average movie

I actually already saw this movie but since it was a while back and since I had this movie on DVD, I thought I might as well check it out again. Nowadays, the box-office is pretty much ruled by Marvel but it took them actually a while to take over the market, some other studios like Fox were in fact some of the pioneers in the genre and this movie was definitely a major milestone. Still, even though this movie was a commercial and critical success when it was released, it didn't completely work for me. The biggest issue, in my opinion, was that the running time was just too  short. Indeed, the damned thing was only about 100 minutes long but they had to introduce a dozen of super-heros and Professor Xavier's school for mutants, they had to deal with the love-hate relationship between Magneto and Professor Xavier, to deal with the love triangle involving Logan-Jean Grey-Cyclops, to deal with the increasing fear and discrimination from the humans towards the mutants and there was also some rather half-baked plan cooked up by Magneto. Seriously, most of it was pretty cool and entertaining but there was simply not enough time to develop anything properly, the biggest victim being the gorgeous Halle Berry who had the most thankless and boring part in this movie. To conclude, in spite of its flaws, I have to admit it, it was still a decent watch and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10