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Rating: - X-Men Comic Fans, a Must Have.
The X-Men is loaded with action and great special effects. All comic book fans should be delighted to see what a great job was done to the comic. The character of Wolverine and Saber-tooth alone are menacing and powerfully portrayed. Remembering that film makers always take liberties, the motion picture was brought off with flair and style. Very enjoyable, a must have DVD.
Rating: - Better than it should have been.
Comic books are notoriously difficult to translate to feature-film format. Goodness knows, there have been missteps in the past. But director Brian Singer does about as good a job as can be reasonably expected. First off, we need to thank the makers of Mission Impossible 2 for running over-schedule, thus tying up actor Dougray Scott and consequently allowing actor Hugh Jackman to play Wolverine. Jackman is the standout in this movie. His wonderfully understated performance as the "reluctant hero" is arguably the centerpiece of this film.What distinguishes this film from other lesser film adaptions is an intelligent script, or at least intelligent for the genre. Character development isn't sacrificed to make room for more standard mindless special effects and action setpieces, like in some movies ("Batman and Robin", anyone?). The in-jokes are funny, and the characters' history and motivations are treated with a fan's level of respect. If the filmmakers can retain those elements of character-driven story and a respect for the source material in future installments, then they may have a successful movie franchise on their hands
Rating: - This is released due to the sequel being released.
I'm sure you have seen X-men or you would not be reading my review. They released the X-Men DVD in the year 2000, but since the sequel to the film (X2) is hitting theaters early next year, they decided to released this DVD. It will be worth what you pay, as it is jammed with special features.Disc One features will include an "enhanced viewing mode" allowing access to 6 deleted scenes and 17 behind-the scenes featurettes while watching the film, and audio commentary by director Bryan Singer. The film will be in anamorphic widescreen video with English DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, along with French Dolby Digital 5.1 and Spanish Dolby Surround. Subtitles will be available in Spanish and English. Disc Two features will include an introduction by Bryan Singer, The Uncanny Suspects casting featurette, the X-Factor: The Look of the X-Men costume featurette, The Special Effects of the X-Men featurette, storyboard-to-animatic-to-film comparisons, the Reflection of the X-Men featurette, exclusive movie premiere footage from Ellis Island and around the world, multi-angle scene studies, a still photo gallery, 3 theatrical trailers, 14 TV spots, 12 web interstitials and the X-Men 2 sneak preview teaser.
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