X-Men

"Trust a few. Fear the rest."

2000 1h 44m EN

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7.0

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82%

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7.3

IMDB

★7.0TMDB · 12,602🍅82%Rotten Tomatoes●64Metacritic★7.3IMDB · 690,803

AdventureActionScience Fiction

Synopsis

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Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.

“Trust a few. Fear the rest.”

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Cast

Hugh Jackman
Logan / Wolverine
Patrick Stewart
Xavier
Ian McKellen
Magneto
Famke Janssen
Jean Grey
James Marsden
Cyclops
Halle Berry
Storm
Anna Paquin
Rogue
Tyler Mane
Sabretooth

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Bryan Singer
Writers: Tom DeSanto, David Hayter, Bryan Singer
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Mid-budget at $75M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 4.0× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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26 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "X-Men Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

CAST

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358+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Bryan Singer, shot by Newton Thomas Sigel. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Michael Kamen. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Steven Rosenblum shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Bryan Singer directs. Newton Thomas Sigel behind the camera. Michael Kamen scores. Steven Rosenblum cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Mid-budget at $75M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Made its money back 4.0× over at the box office.
326 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
4Part of the "X-Men Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5358+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Bryan Singer, shot by Newton Thomas Sigel. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Michael Kamen. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Steven Rosenblum shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Trust a few. Fear the rest.".
11IMDB entry: tt0120903 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12The top-rated still from this film on TMDB has 7 community votes — a signal the frame composition stuck with viewers.
1312,602 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
14Released under 17 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Newton Thomas Sigel
Original score: Michael Kamen
Editing: Steven Rosenblum
Production design: John Myhre
Costume design: Louise Mingenbach
Makeup / hair: Christopher Allen Nelson
VFX supervisor: Craig Barron
Sound: Craig Berkey
Stunt coordinator: Gary Jensen
Runtime: 104 min · 1h 44m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $75,000,000
Box office: $296,339,527
Return: 395% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: X-Men (2000)
Rotten Tomatoes: 82% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 64/100
IMDB rating: 7.3/10 · 690,803 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

14 wins & 26 nominations total

Saturn Award for Best Actor
Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film
Saturn Award for Best Costume
Saturn Award for Best Director

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Part of

X-Men Collection

A superhero film series about a team of mutant superheroes based on the Marvel Comics superheroes of the same name.

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Bryan Singer

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Wuchak2018-09-19
★ 8/10
“X-Men” laid the foundation for all the great Superhero flicks to come I think the X-Men films have been so popular because the X-Men dare to be different. The concept of the X-Men strays far from superhero conventions. If you approach the X-Men films thinking you're getting something akin to Superman, Spider-Man or Batman, forget it. The unique concept of the X-Men is that humanity is starting to evolve to the next level and a small percentage of humans all over the globe are starting to manifest superhuman powers from the mutant "X" gene. Two mutant leaders, who are old friends, take totally contrasting positions: Charles Xavier starts a school for mutant youths in upstate New York. His attitude is positive and his goal benign. Eric Lensherr or Magneto, on the other hand, is fed up with the paranoia of non-mutants. He starts a "Brotherhood of Mutants" with an attitude of superiority. Unfortunately, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. You could say that Xavier takes the approach of Martin Luther King Jr. while Magneto goes the route of Malcolm X, an interesting comparison. Although everybody has their favorite, I feel all three films in the original trilogy are of the same general quality: "X-Men" (2000), "X2: X-Men United" (2003) and "X-Men: The Last Stand" (2006). "X-Men" naturally lays the foundation by introducing the principle characters and the plight of the mutants. Wolverine and Rogue are introduced and slowly develop an interesting big brother/little sister type relationship. They come into contact with both Magneto's Brotherhood and Xavier's school and nobly opt for the latter. Magneto's bunch includes Sabertooth, Toad and Mystique, while Xavier's team includes Cyclops, Jean Grey and Storm, as well as adolescents Iceman and Pyro. Both groups of mutants meet and tussle at Liberty Island in New York Harbor, which is the weakest part of the film, but not bad. When "X-Men" debuted in 2000 it was easily the best comic-to-film adaption since "Superman" (1978) and "Superman II" (1980). It was the precursor to all the great superhero films that came out in the 2000s and has only lost some of its allure due to the quality of many of those films. The movie runs 1 hour, 44 minutes with several interesting deleted scenes available. GRADE: A-
tmdb440066252019-03-09
★ 7/10
X-Men is a milestone in cinema history. Without it being actually good and such a smash success, we wouldn't be enjoying the comic book movie world that rules the box office today. The approach of X-Men was the right one. It told a relevant human story about prejudice, treating the source material respectfully and seriously. It's legacy may be greater than the actual movie, but X-Men is x-cellent!
Kamurai2020-10-10
★ 5/10
Decent watch, might watch again, and can recommend. This is not a good "comic book movie", but as a stand alone story, it's decent if derivative. Just pretend I did a whole rant about how this isn't like the comics, we're both better off this way. There are a lot good points like balancing the characters and stars in a way that was lauded way more in Avengers later on because everyone liked those characters better and there was some definite "oomph" to the Avengers franchise that the X-Men franchise was missing from the start, but no one had done it right yet so it was unclear what we didn't know at the time. Fox clearly put enough money into this on the basis of the cast paychecks alone, and there are several good visual effects throughout the movie. Comic consistencies aside, they really shoehorned some of the things in and there character writing is clearly misdirected. The writing has a good skeleton to it, but there are too many places where they wrote "and something cool happens to distract the audience". X-Men is a drama story, and they carried that into the movie, but it would seem they were aiming to be an action movie with a deep plot and just landed inbetween. The action is all between characters that (and I fully believed the actors did all they could) are limited to being awkward, goofy, stiff, or empty.