Poorly executed, trivial 'superhero' flick.

Rating: 2/10 (27 October 2009)

An awful movie that lurks in the shadows of the great X-Men and X-Men 2, expecting to attract 13-year-olds with a rather dim story, poor action and, hard to believe, without a climax.
At first glance, the movie features a decent cast (the excellent Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber for instance). Yet once you actually dive into this fourth X-Men-installment, you'll feel like you've been cheated.
That's mainly due to the triviality of the movie: there's simply no reason to watch an indestructible hero beat and kill hordes of villains if story, tension, the hero's one-liners, and the action sequences aren't well executed. Adding the laughable CGI effects and a poorly done love-story, there's not much to enjoy. In a sense, the whole flick is anticlimactic, rendering the whole experience dull and lame.
Having finished screening this movie, you still won't care about anything that was going on on the screen. You'll feel like you've been watching some badly done television action-mystery pilot.
I do understand that this is supposed to be an action movie without complex story lines, or any complex character development. Yet fans of movies and especially of the whole X-Men universe will be utterly disappointed and even offended by this B-movie. This movie belies your high expectations - and you won't see a decent action flick, which is a shame.