I didn't hate it but I didn't love it either.

Rating: 7/10 (7 May 2009)

Being an X-fan of some 17 years standing I expected to either love or hate this movie. What I didn't expect was to be indifferent to it and yet I was. After an amazing start where Wolverine's relationships with Victor Creed (Sabretooth) and Stryker, amongst others, were beautiful explored the third act was a huge let down. What should have been the strongest act was flabby compared to the tight plotting and character development of the fist two acts. It wasn't helped by the fact that there was pointless exposition of the Scott Summers (Cyclops) character and a game of spot the X-men going on. Also characters that had little to do with the film were given too much screen time and exposition that could easily have been handle by Wraith was given to the Blob. It became a distraction because I was sat there wondering what the point of some scenes were rather than being swept away by the universe that the film was trying to create All in all the performances were solid and I really enjoyed the interactions between Huge Jackman (Wolverine) and Liev Schreiber (Sabretooth) but it just wasn't enough to make up for some of the small irritations in the third act. Sadly this movie should have been excellent but it ended up being just mediocre.