X Men (2000):
It’s been years since I first watched this and since I’ve been bingeing the 90s cartoon I’d thought I would give it a watch. The biggest problem for me was that it was way too short, even the deleted scenes that come on the DVD add nothing but filler, so I assume that’s the fault of the screenplay. Speaking of screenplay, for the most part it’s fine but there were a couple bits that made me unintentionally snigger. (“Do you know what happens to a toad when its struck by lighting?”) Some of the editing choices also felt off to me, some shots cut away to another location too quickly for my taste (this doesn’t affect the action scenes thankfully, though they are pretty average and not particularly spectacular). Overall it feels very small in scale, like they had a small budget or something. The performances by the actors are probably the best thing about this movie, except for Hale Berry and Anna Paquin, I didn’t think they were any good.