Back in 2000, I wondered how one could film a popular animated series/comic book in such a different way. From the famous setting there are literally only the names of the characters. The appearance of the characters, their age, their biographies, their abilities, team composition, setting, problems did not coincide. It reminded me of the "wonderful" adaptation of "Mario Brothers" from the 90s, where there was nothing left of the original source at all. A similar disappointment was familiar to me from the game adaptations of Turtles, Captain Wrungel, and all the Soviet films where some fool in an apron just walked around and said he was a cat or a bird. But those movies didn't have a budget of $75 million. And for such money it was possible not to shame and just give the viewer everything as it was and how he loves.
And you know what? When a 13-year-old notices that the film is raving and pathetic against the background of the animated series, it is a very bad sign. Especially at the start of the franchise. I remember how I discussed the film with my peers: people agreed that it could look cool (then the fact of such a film adaptation was an event and was perceived as a symbol of the transition to the 21st century), but it is better not to think about the source and common sense.
How many times have you told everyone since childhood? Radiation is IMMEDIATE. No, they've put on a whole light show! With the epicenter in the Statue of Liberty. Where else? A huge dose of radiation doesn’t turn people into superheroes, it kills them. You can not turn an existing person into a mutant – for this, the genetic information inside each cell of the body must be the same, and with such effects it turns out different, and this either kills the cells or turns them into cancerous. And I knew that as a kid. I laughed at what nonsense the authors rubbed in an expensive film, they held the viewer for a complete degenerate. Well, they would say that Magneto used some other principle, like nanomachines or a virus. In addition, the villainous plan is still completely meaningless, because it first turns people into mutants, and then into puddles of snot. Let's do this for all the earthlings... Well, it's just a shiza. This is the level when the authors did not care at all and when they considered their viewer for an empty place. And with this film began the era of comic books, carefully carrying this tradition of scooting the viewer through the decades.