Just not that good

Rating: 6/10 (5 June 2011)

I went in to this movie with pretty confident that I would be enjoying this movie. I'm not going to go as far as to say this movie was bad, but I found myself constantly waiting for something more. When you're just going to do a 'reboot' or 'reinvention' or whatever you want to call it, you don't need to go way the hell out of the way just making stuff up. Star Trek did a great job of keeping it simple. XMen-First Class is way too long. The key is doing more with less. You lose flow to the movie when you have these scenes that drag on and on trying to build up these relationships, that fans of the comic should assume already.
Again, this movie wasn't bad, but it could have been a lot better. I recommend waiting until DVD to see this. It sets up well for other movies, but overall it was way too long and had too many corny scenes. Acting by the younger crowd was less-than-stellar.