I don't understand what all the fuss is about

Rating: 2/10 (4 April 2016)

Are we watching two different movies everyone? I have heard nothing but praise for this movie. Over and over again people crying that the X-Men movies are finally returning to their former glory (I think the MCU might have given them a bit of inspiration personally) and I've even seen this film on more then one list of best superhero films ever. Butit's really not that good guys. Now I know what people like about this film; the relationship between Xavier and Magneto. I agree it's well done; how they help to shape each other, how they get on so well, how they have similar goals and all that sort of thing. They really do work well together but their relationship is not enough to save this movie. Firstly the period setting is nothing short of pathetic; I've seen period Superhero movie (The Shadow, Captain America: First Avenger) and this movie doesn't hold a candle to them. If you didn't tell me it was set in the sixties I wouldn't have guessed because the move does such a poor job of convincing you that it's set in another time period. The villain in this movie is painfully weak and coming from a series that has brought us one of the greatest villains ever in Magneto having a villain this uninteresting is nothing short of criminal. In fact except for Magneto and Xavier all the characters in this movie are plenty bland. I'm also not a fan of the CGI in this movie; it seems to cover nearly everything in the film in this sheen that makes it look plastic. The racism thing manages to be even more ridiculous in this movie too; highlighted by one scene where a Russian ship and an American ship (literally seconds after the Cuban missile crisis) put aside their differences and turn their weapons on the mutants. That's just small child writing superhero comics level of stupid. Also am I the only one disturbed that every woman in this movie is portrayed in a sexual way? Every single main female character in this movie is in a sexual position at least once in the film. I can't be the only one that finds this troubling. On a minor note do you know who that red demonic looking mutant is? The one who's the main villain's sidekick? The one who can teleport? His name is Azazel. In the comics he's the last member of an ancient subspecies of mutants who created the human idea of the demon (he's also the father of Nightcrawler with Mystique but that something else entirely). Azazel is actually a villain in his own right and having him being a toady to a weak villain like this is nothing short of criminal; this is made even worse when you learn he was played by a British actor, not just any British actor but Jason Flemyng. This is such a waist I could cry. Overall Xavier and Magneto and great, five stars for them alone but the rest of the movie doesn't match up.