Another over-hyped soulless hero mash up.

Rating: 6/10 (3 July 2014)

I only just about made it to the end of this film. In some respects I'm glad I waited it out as I always enjoy seeing Magneto rise up and wreak havoc in any format.
It was a close run thing however - I came very close to cutting my losses as we all had to endure the tiresome emotional crisis of the young Professor X. This film suffers from the blight of a tedious extended middle section where not an awful lot interesting actually happens - and there are prolonged periods of uninspiring dialogue. I found my mind wandering in the cinema as the director laboriously set up the clunky plot climax. It was all a bit tiresome.
One always needs to leave one's brain at the door in this type of film and that's OK, it's what we all expect, but I was expecting this film to outdo the other incarnations of the X-Men given the things I had read, and the glowing recommendations I got from colleagues.
Sadly it's all a bit pedestrian, and when you find yourself fidgeting and looking at your watch in the middle of an X-Men film you know that something has gone wrong somewhere. There are excellent performances here and there. Fassbender continues to ooze screen charisma and he captures the ruthless single mindedness of Magneto wonderfully well. Jackman continues to make Wolverine his own, but aside from that there's not really much memorable here.
This is the first X-Men I have gone to see in the cinema and I think it will be my last.