boring and disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (21 April 2009)

i'm very unhappy with this film
wolverine and gambit are in my opinion the most interesting x-men and i surely had high expectations too, but this movie just doesn't work - they throw a lot of characters together and do not explore even one - even wolverine is just a flat and forgettable one, not to mention gambit, who is there just to look mysterious twice. of course you can't talk about character development too, since there is nothing to develop. especially the bad guys were so boring ...

the acting is painful - i guess this is a result of the cheap script too, but it hurts anyway - the script is just a merge of the generic Hollywood scripts with some way too predictable twists - good guy stops doing bad things, bad guys don't want to let him go, bad guys kill his girl and any innocent guy they can kill, good guy is mad and in for a righteous kill, girl is not dead - she betrayed the good guy, but only because the bad guys have her sister, one bad guy helps good guy against the other bad guys ... done

i had hopes for some nice action sequences at least, but this movie feels like Disney made it - no good use of the claws, no good moves at all, maybe the only fight watchable was wolverine vs gambit and it still was not really good.

of course it's a problem of all supers movies, but since this one sucked pretty badly i had a lot of time to notice the missing limits of the characters powers and the missing common sense - an example: wolverine gets an adamantium skeleton and suddenly all are "he is unstoppable". but they have adamantium left and even adamantium bullets ... and at the end an adamantium bullet in the head proves to be quite good in stopping him for a while. so - why can't you shoot him in the eye with a normal bullet for the same result? and after it cut his head of with an adamantium chainsaw for example ...

but the worst thing is that i'm pretty sure this one will be absolutely overrated, just like the last batman movie