Disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (6 August 2012)

Such potential. The greatest coolest Super Hero in the world...in the comics he drinks and smokes and gets the ladies and all without any smooth or manners or apologies (or hangovers). This story sold his history so short it was unforgivable. The story of his history was just credits. It was 5 minutes as a child, then all of a sudden he was fighting the civil war with Sabretooth, then every war thereafter, until Vietnam got too tough for him. So he had enough of Sabretooth's brutality after, what, 250 years? Took you long enough! He was 5 then 25. What happened in between? The real story of his adamantium is so much better. Why would he have trusted Striker? He was about to kill him. Then, "oh okay, I trust you as long as I can kill Sabretooth and I have no memory of this conversation." Dumb!!!!
Re-do this franchise. Re-do the X-Men. Where can "First Class" go now? Beast, Banshee and Havok? Only one of the originals? How do you bridge from First Class to X-Men? Havok is Cyclops's little brother. What would be wrong with going old school? It doesn't have to be as big as The Final Stand. Xavier doesn't have to die. There don't have to be 150 bad guys. It can just be a nice story, with beautiful angel effects, and a Jean Grey with hair. Famke started out good but went down him in a hurry when she cut her hair, then they made Phoenix ugly with veins on her head, instead of a beautiful dangerous bird full of life, beauty and death.