little more than tripe

Rating: Null/10 (21 October 2011)

As a long-time fan of the comics, a big fan of the first two x-men films, and a fan of kick- ass, I was hoping for better things. I suppose the best place to begin is with the characters... Professor X: the actor was good, but the part was poorly written. I don't recall charles being a geneticist, at least not as the primary focus of his education. Magneto: good enough, except that his abilities seem stronger than they are in the first film ("I don't think I can stop them all.") Mystique: the chubby-cheeked actress playing the part here is a far cry from the slender rebecca romijn, whose performance was much sleeker and more graceful by far. Also, writing her into charles' life seemed like it was just a cheap way to get her into the film. Most of the rest of the cast of characters was poorly chosen and under-developed. I don't remember ever seeing bug girl (angel? Seriously?) Or darwin in the comics. Havok was the one I had the highest hopes for, but they managed to make his power look like a red version of guile's energy blast in street fighter, with funny hula-hoop gyrations thrown in for a laugh... The production in general was sad. The wardrobe looked awful modern for the early sixties. And the blackbird! Oh my god, the blackbird... two years too early, a giant cargo space, and vtol capability? I won't even start on the submarine's reactor... Overall, terribly inconsistent with the previous films, and the comics, and reality in general.