Good but not great

Rating: 7/10 (7 January 2012)

I liked X2, X3 and Wolverine but hated the first Xmen movie so maybe this is the case here. I'm not a Marvel fan boy but that is not why I'm not crazy about this movie. I loved the storyline but wasn't crazy about acting in this movie. The almost emotionless acting makes this movie fall flat before it can be considered epic and that is the problem here. Michael Fassbender looks the part of Magneto but simply isn't badass enough. I mean you see him going around and killing people but he just gives off the impression that a 90 year old lady could kick his ass. He just doesn't play a strong soon to be bad guy and that's the problem. January Jones is hot but her cold acting is very distracting and pulls you out of the movie. James McAvoy plays a prefect soon-to-be professor X and Kevin Bacon does a masterful job in his role but both of these actors shouldn't have to carry the movie. Fact is that Michael Fassbender has a lot of camera time and that works to bring the movie down. Another thing that costs the movie is Kevin Bacon's henchmen. They're are also stone face actors which wouldn't be a problem if they weren't in a lot of the action scenes. Let's hope they replace Michael Fassbender before they release a sequel to this..