It's all my fault

Rating: 3/10 (10 February 2015)

Prior to watching the latest edition of this very popular series, I put the curse of death on the movie: "I have enjoyed every X-Men movie, this has to be good." OOPs - sorry - from that point on the movie did not have a chance.
Granted, back to the future/time travel movies are confusing anyway, but this one was a mess.
So let's briefly summarize what was going on in the plot: Giant super robots are killing the mutants - so far so good. They are arriving in the present (around 2023) in flying coffins - and the mutants (Wolverine, Scott, Storm - the usual suspects) are alarmed because they know they (our good favorite mutants) cannot kill the bad robots - because we have seen them do it. And how did this happen? In the past - (1973 to be exact) Mystique killed the evil dwarf Dr. Trask who was developing the giant killer robots and since he was gone, the program went forward (I guess in his memory.)
So - let's (X-Men) send somebody back to 1973 to stop Mystique from killing the evil dwarf and all will be fine. So who can do this? - naturally Wolverine (any body who can hop up and down for over three minutes ought to be equal to this simple task.) Well, Wolverine goes back to 1973. And here is where the movie really missed the mark. The 79's were so bizarre that Wolverine could have had many humorous clashes with the culture. (Did you ever see I love the 70's?) But all they did was play Roberta Flack on the radio - a missed opportunity to save the movie.
Oh yes - both Magneto and Dr. Charles Xavier (Cougat?) send him back to stop Mystique. Naturally one of his biggest challenges will be to convince the young Erik (Magneto) and Xavier - in the past - to help Wolverine stop Mystique. They say they have not matured their powers yet (in the past), but then display them in all their glory later (later in the past)- oops another messy plot deal.
So Wolverine stumbles around in 1973 - and the final scene (the assassination of the dwarf) climaxes with (young) Magneto pulling a stadium (Redskins Stadium? - oops politically insensitive name - sorry) from the ground and surrounding the White House with it. Then Magneto pulls a black box containing the President and his staff (+ the dwarf) from under the Oval Office - rips the door off - and Richard Nixon comes forward to be sacrificed instead of the rest of mankind. What? Also it is revealed that JFK was a mutant (I always knew there was something strange about that guy.)
And the actor playing Richard Nixon looked more like Lady Bird Johnson than Nixon!! They could have just put one of those Nixon Halloween masks on the actor and been more convincing.
The best line in the movie was almost at the end when one of the characters looks up and says "What in the hell is going on?" Too bad they did not get a Vince Lombardi look-alike for that line..
Now, I read some of the reviews which hysterically gushed over the movie: "Best X-Men yet!" (Maybe they did not see any of the other movies.) This just shows that the world is full of different people with different tastes and desires. Believe it or not, there are some people who liked 3 Days to Kill!! (well not really, I was just trying to be charitable.)
Ooh - one other good thing - at the beginning one of the mutants displayed his unique power - the power to make people puke on demand - pretty cool - pretty good power. How much can you really do to someone when you are puking?
I didn't hate it, I was just sad that the X-Men series had fallen to this depth.
I'm sure we will see more of the X-Men - I'm just not sure I am up to any more of this. My apologies for jinxing this one.