Should have been a perfect 10

Rating: 9/10 (1 June 2014)

I know, I'm nit-picking, I did love the film as is, I don't rate films I don't like 9. But it's the X Men, which I love so much, and this one is one of the corner stones of their comics books mythology. So the minute details that didn't really stop it from being a very enjoyable movie, still made me sorry that it's not as perfect as I wanted it to be. The acting is superb by all involved, and as I once stated the roles are the best roles ever written for comics characters. 3D roles that don't actually need the special effects to look real. The pacing is great, the CG is top notch (one can almost add obviously), and the time travel is well constructed, which is not always so easily done. So what did annoy me enough to get this film rated as mere 9. Very simply the platitudes that are getting into the story line, it's hard to explain without any spoiler added, but I'll try. People and plot directions are getting changed in a split second, because somebody says something, when something like this happens in real life it should be a real life altering moment, I remember only one such moment in the film that really qualified, all other fell short. And when a film that I believe should be a real deep story about the basic human fear of the extraordinary and the different, falls into simplistic slogans, if only at certain moments, I can't help but get annoyed. But the bottom line is still a great film for all X Men fans, and for whoever likes the sci-fi comics combo at its best.