Extra Cheese

Rating: 5/10 (24 October 2014)

I am a big X-Men fan but what a disappointment. I grew up on the comics, the cartoon and loved most of the films. X-Men Days of Future Past tries too hard to pack in the emotional layer. I appreciate the 15,000 jobs it created and hundreds of thousands of hours of work...but the script is so weak. I never roll my eyes but this was unreal. When characters were killed I felt no connection due to the weak acting. Jennifer Lawrence didn't seem to be in the right place while filming. The story was so convoluted and the visuals became the only reason to continue on. $200,000,000 and this is what they create. They need to get some new talent injected into this franchise. When I heard people at the end gasp, "oh my God" about Jean being alive...what did they expect? All the X-Men would be alive due to stopping the assassination which thus stops the Sentinels from being created. After seeing Rogue, Storm, Beast...why not Jean? Couldn't they have tried harder? 15,000 people involved with that much money focused could have really made a dent in cancer research rather than another clichéd film.