Had there been a decent plot, it would have been "decent"

Rating: 3/10 (4 June 2009)

The beginning was interesting, so a few minutes in I was getting excited that this might be as good as the first two. But then the clever beginning ended. What followed was a story that in no way reflected what we learned in the previous three. For instance, in X-Men 2: X-Men United we learn that Wolverine went through a huge ordeal getting that metal implanted, they tore him up and inserted it not just shooting some needles into his head. There was a flashback of blood everywhere and him not knowing what the claws were (It was implied that the procedure was so brutal, he blocked it out along with the rest of his memory). This movie of course decided to make it look all good and pretty. There were several of these occurrences in the movie.
One of my other grudges was how cyclops happened to have glasses that would stop his ability (before he met the professor). Who made them? And I don't think sunglasses alone would prevent him from waking up at night and blowing a whole in his ceiling.
It is a movie though, so I understand why they would take the cowardly approach and not attempt to make it realistic, like how cyclops's ability (used by the super mutant) would be completely stopped by wolverines claws. Perhaps if he had adamantium armor where there weren't holes in the suit, that might have worked.
The worst part was that the only people in the movie I actually liked (the guy that controls electricity and the old married couple) are killed off.
Why I am giving this a 3 instead of a 1? Because Hollywood accomplished what they set out to: Make money without spending a lot of it.