Can I get my money back....(Spoilers)

Rating: 3/10 (5 June 2011)

It just wasn't that interesting. We've seen snippets of origin stories in the other movies and this was a desperate attempt to make up for Wolverine.
Beast and Mystique are the best part of the movie and Beast doesn't show up for 2/3rds the movie anyway - he does....just in his mutant to be form! Hugh Jackman makes a cameo that could have used a little CGI around the wrinkles on his face....because he looks older in this movie than he does in what was to come after (oopps)! Rebecca Romaine also does a 5 second cameo that you better not blink or miss.
James does his best with the part - but he is no younger version of Patrick Stewart - and therein lies part of the films problem.
You cannot go backwards after casting iconic actors with great voices to replace them in the past with actors that, while they can act, don't seem to be a younger version of what has already been established.
Great use of CGI - not worth seeing in 3D - and the archive footage surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis was a nice touch.
And for real fans of guest-shots....Michael Ironside does his usual shtick as a military man.
It was overall, just OK, here's hoping that a second movie makes better use of dialog and action, not just action for actions sake.