Expected but highly overrated

Rating: 6/10 (25 May 2014)

I usually do not write reviews. The feeling that urged me to write is not the one of admiring the movie above all and let the world know about it. It was not a dislike neither, because I enjoy X-men movies since the possibilities with characters are just immense. No, what pushed me to write is that sense of enjoying a film but seeing that its being highly overrated.
Yes, it's a summer blockbuster so no need to be too harsh on that as long as it entertains and doesn't make you check your watch. And yes, this was probably one of the best among all X-men movies for all the reasons everybody says but somehow fails to specify.
Overall, the movie had some serious plot wholes and left some extraordinary characters untapped. It was an injustice to the work that had been done in the First Class on introducing the depth of Erik and Xavier's characters. It also had some very flat quotes, especially Xavier's lines were quite poor, and not even mentioning the JFK related ones... The movie should have been 30 minutes longer to better set the tone and give it the drama and epicness it deserved because, hey, does one have to remind how Dramatic and Epic changing history and saving the entire world is?
At the end, it was merely an entertaining action movie with a lot of very cool characters (who could possibly not love that Quicksilver character?!) but no depth, unless you already know the whole story and try to imagine that part yourself.
Being the best X-men movie ever done does not make it a great movie, considering the low it came from - not doing it better than the X3 would have been a disaster. I give it 7 points because it was very entertaining but could have been done much better.