Middle of the Road

Rating: Null/10 (5 February 2013)

This movie received a lot of hype and promotion, so perhaps I was expecting to be thoroughly entertained. I was happy with Michael Fassbender as Magneto and James McAvoy as Charles Xavier, but the rest of the X-Men did little to make me care about them. The film is 132 minutes long, but honestly, felt much longer. I was bored at parts, and this you do not expect from a film franchise that is action-based. I like Jones as Emma Frost. She became my favorite character and the only other character I found myself cheering on besides Magneto. I would have liked to see a different actress play the young Mystique because I felt her acting to be poor and lackluster. I was the most entertained by the scene with Erik/Magneto in the bar in Argentina. This scene is closer to the beginning of the film and if there could have been more action scenes, I would have enjoyed the film a lot more.