Graphic novels (as they sometimes deserve to be called) take themselves as seriously as the ones without pictures, and you can tell that here when the opening scene shows Jews being forced into death camps in Poland in 1944. It's restrained and introspective for a superhero epic, and fans of the comic books may like that. 'X-Men' is at least not a manic editing frenzy for atrophied attention spans. The events that end the movie are sort of anticlimactic, and the special effects, while energetic, are not as persuasive as they might be (at one point an airplane clearly looks like a model, bouncing as it lands on water). Since the Marvel Comics empire hopes 'X-Men' is the first entry in a franchise, it's understandable that the setups would play an important role in the first film. Look for a small X above the ad to close it, and begin watching.
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