One of my all time favorites.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

OMG. i have been searching for this movie for years. i saw it when i was 12 on fox and taped it.. i have horrible luck so of course my father tapes over it.. LAME!! then the name of the movie was lost to me.. the other day i was watching dawn of the dead(also an amazing movie) when i see Matt frewer(frank)and the fist thing that pops into my head is that the doctor on that x-men movie. still not remembering the name.. thanks to the all knowing internet i now know the name of the movie and i have placed my bid to own it once again.. now i can have a piece of my childhood back and love it forever!!!! u have no idea how happy i am right now. down right gitty if i might say so myself!!!! =D

I remember, several times, asking if other people had seen this movie. Thankfull, nobody said they had. It's like it was just a bad dream that a few people in my family had. Where they took the premise for the X Men comics, half the ideas and scenes from the cartoon, and used the characters from the X Men Spin off and made Generation X into a made for TV movie.The plot involved a powerful machine that let you have power over dreams, but had an addictive quality. And there was an evil man played by a normally good actor who ruined his performance by thinking he's Jim Carrey. And even though it was only two hours long, it seemed like I was in purgatory.I saw Skin and Jubilee given the major parts, while Banshee flirted moronically with Emma Frost. But non of the dialog seemed to go together, and existed only for the sake of showing "This is what the people in Generation X" say. It didn't have to be.And for years, I waited patiently for the announced spin off series. Perhaps they could atone for the sins of the pilot film. Alas, it never happened, and I believed it to be just a horrible dream I wish it was. I wish this movie never existed. I wish it was nothing more then a bad memory. But it's a bad movie that lives on in the form of VHS.0/****

As always in this kinds of movies, series etc, the plot is vague, unplanned, thin and so on...This is definetly a follow- up on X Men, but, sorry to say, this TV movie lacks the touch of reality, although it shows people and so. What I mean is the persons unnatural responses when spoken to, or actions made at them.But the most annoying thing about most 'modern' movies is that as soon there's an PC in the picture, the persons types like hell, and it happens... blip, a few windows opens, text scrolling... ARGH! I wish they could at least make the typing credible. I don't know where the heck they get these ideas to make everything graphical. And I don't talk just about typing, and as well as special FX.Btw, how the heck could the guy break into the Cerebro's security program without first crack the code using another application (Visually for the TV- audience?)? Bahhh...Gadgets here and there.. I wonder.. How come the 'dream machine' looked just like the one the wierdos machine? An error in the making of the prop's... Also, why do the directors insist that there's always a third persons viewingangle when they're in the dreamstate, everything is sharp as a knifeedge.. Ok, that was deep, I know... But anyway, it should be a little more dim and fuzzy there...Many of you might wonder why I even bother to complaint at crap like this? Well... They still doing this bad job today... Last film I saw that actually were crappier was Stephen King's The Mangler 2.0... Uuuuh...

Compared to most comic-to-TV adaption, Generation X is...adequate. It doesn't rely on campiness (Batman/60's, the Justice League TV show pilot...). The main problem is that the writers don't seem to have much idea what they're doing. They opted for one big-name star (Frewer) and ended up with a bargain-basement Joker impersonation. The whole Dream Dimension plot is just stupid (even the characters acknowledge they're ripping off Freddy Krueger/Elm Street - not a good sign).When the show sticks to the mutants themselves, it's pretty good. The school seems curiously understaffed, and in that huge mansion, why do six students have to sleep in two fairly small rooms? And the lack of budget shows, since the superheroics are mostly small-scale. Still, the cast is likeable enough, and it probably would have made a decent TV series if the ratings had been there.