Very boring

Rating: Null/10 (28 September 2014)

Hugh Jackman is once again excellent as Wolverine but the whole thing is uninspired. The rest of the cast are (more or less) all either dull or just plain bad. The relationship between Wolverine and Sabretooth (who was nowhere near as intimidating as in the first film, which probably means that he works best as a lackey) had the potential to be interesting but it wasn't. Gambit, one of my favourite characters from the 1990s animated series, is wasted in a fairly small role and is played by a bad actor in Taylor Kitsch. I wish that they had kept Brian Cox as Stryker rather than casting Danny Huston. Honestly, Patrick Stewart's 20 second cameo was my favourite part of the film. I suppose that it was competently enough directed but that's hardly anything to write home about. Even Hugh Jackman said that he didn't really like the film.
"X-Men: The Last Stand" had a host of problems but a bad cast certainly wasn't one of them. Even the actors with smaller roles in that film, such as Josef Sommer as the President and Shohreh Aghdashloo as Dr. Rao, were very good. In this film, not so much. I mean, will.i.am?
I have much the same opinion of this film as I did of "Terminator Salvation", another poor fourth film in a popular film series released in 2009: full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. However, this was slightly better.