Stupidly bad.

Rating: 2/10 (19 September 2011)

I haven't read the comics (though I plan to) but I have watched all movies and enjoyed all of them. I was so looking forward to watching this movie, one of my friends who is a movie buff loved it a lot and understandably I wanted to see it as soon as I could.
I wish I hadn't wasted those two hours of my life. The whole movie feels like a Bond film, just like a lot of other people here have said. There's the classic Bond villain who wants to kill everyone without an actual explanation, his blonde sidekick who does everything he tells her to and looks like a Bond girl. The submarine with the hidden room is horribly Bond-like too. I can understand why Magneto wants to kill Shaw so much, anyone would want revenge, but this movie is just stupid. The movie cuts from Magneto being 12 years old in the war to 30 years old. What happened all that time? Was he just getting high, and steadily angrier about his mother's death? Also, I'm not sure if anyone else noticed this, but why did Magneto have to keep changing from English to American to German, and then randomly at the end, IRISH? I HATED the way Mystique just left her best friend who has loved her and cared for her most of her life, with a bullet in his spine, to go off and have adventures with Magneto. Just because you get bullied for being a 'freak' doesn't mean you leave your best friend on the floor potentially dying. It just goes to show how much the director of this film doesn't 'get' the X-Men story. The women in this film are all exploited as sexual animals, constantly in underwear or tight fitting clothes or short skirts. They all have to look perfect. I also didn't appreciate the comment one of the FBI men say at the end after the female FBI agent tells them about Xavier's kiss. He says 'This is why women shouldn't be allowed in the FBI' or something like that.
I hated the whole film, I truly feel like I've wasted 2 hours of my life. If you like this movie, you're an idiot. Simple as. It wasn't even boring, it's just that it was so bad that I wanted to throw my laptop at the wall. Download it for free if you're going to watch this crap.