Manys Shots To The Head - Kind Of A Beaned XMEN

Rating: 5/10 (27 November 2009)

While this movie makes a noble effort with a lot of explosive action and many slick effects, it forgets that the viewers are more interested in getting a story with their super hero saga. This effort falls short on story.
The problem is despite a fairly talented cast, the script fails to develop the story the way it should be told. Perhaps the folks were more interested in mutants & explosive fun, but the viewer gets quickly bored with all that because of the lack of something to follow. Hugh Jackman heads up a cast that deserves better than what it gets to work with here.
Maybe this happens because 2008 had a good number of successful super hero movies and for explosions & special effects, this one out does them in many ways. The important thing is the makers of the film have their heart in the right place, but fail to execute that to reach the goal of the type of film they wanted to make here.