Marvel struggles to be deep

Rating: 6/10 (4 October 2011)

Ever since Watchmen hit the markets, movie makers have began to re-make their super-hero movies but this time with the intention of making the movie deep and a bit philosophical... I call these movies Super-Heroes for Adults.
Watchmen was one extreme of such movies where the character driven philosophies presented were most primary compared to the action or the plot in general... X men is the opposite extreme. X-men had one philosophical idea to present which was that natural selection would favor the more fit new mutant species and the movie is the genesis of the Humans VS mutants battle for survival. This is the best and if not the only good thing about the movie (the scene with hugh jackman was a nice touch).
The acting was horrific if not worse than Christian Bale in Dark Knight. Beast, Mystique, Laser dude, screaming dude and most of all the butterfly girl were absolutely terrible if not laughable, while the rest where okay. The scene where butterfly girl decides to change teams and instantaneously becomes perfectly okay with the idea of starting a 3rd world war and wiping out the whole human race was one of cinema's worst acted scenes in history. They all change from being alienated kids to Hitlers and Stalins (Including mystique who even had to dump her brother).
Not even a slight sign of any thought process or emotion is displayed by each and every character that switched teams (be it in the beginning or in the end) with the exception of Magneto (the only consistent character in the whole movie).
Also, the manner by which the world war almost began is very unconvincing. Threatening to kill army generals or seducing them with imaginary sex is by no means enough incentive for them to start a nuclear war that will end the world.. also .. do these generals run the country? and why do they even meet with the guy?
The plot is extremely predictable and poor. The dialogue is generally dry and spoon-feeding the viewer through repetition of the same idea (New species VS Old) over and over and over again. The action is okay if not less than the previous X-men movies.
All in all the movie is entertaining and only slightly more deep then previous ones (but definitely worse acted) so its worth the time. Dark Night and Watchmen are better in every single aspect. I am afraid of how bad the next spiderman will be.