Finally Hollywood has gone out on a limb to produce a hard-hitting movie that confronts the heated social topic of genetic supermutation. Previously tinseltown has taken on pressing issues such as Aids in Philadelphia and racism in the movies of Spike Lee and Mario Van Peebles. Now at last director Bryan Singer has given a voice to all those poor persecuted individuals who shoot energy beams from their eyes, pick their noses with retractable adamantium claws and harbour an unhealthy fetish for blue and yellow spandex. Make no mistake this is a message movie, it's about bigotry and ....... things.Since Hollywood promised us we'd believe a man could fly back in 1979 we've been avidly awaiting something so rare it makes a politician with scruples look commonplace: the halfway decent superhero movie. X-Men may well qualify for this coveted title on two grounds it doesn't have ridiculous costumes and it does makes proper use of its characters' unique selling point: their superpowers. If you add Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart camping it to the hilt to this mix, not to mention some of the summer's most special effects, you're bound to come up with one of the biggest fun no-brainers to come out this year.While crititical acclaim for X Men has been sparing in the extreme if we consider that it went on to become the sixth biggest grossing movie in the States, maybe the film's woefully un-catchy tag line: \"Trust a few, fear the rest\" might just as easily be applied to the majority of film critics.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>","fnc":"googleTrackerHelper.doTrackPage( '\/'X-Men-film_options~18379'\/Reviews\/ViewAll\/1' );"}