A Great Film

Rating: 8/10 (28 May 2006)

Well where to begin. In my personal opinion this wasn't the best X-Men movie of them, but was definitely good. With it's story line it had the potential to be great, but with lack of character development, and quite a few main characters missing for the majority of the movie, it just didn't fulfill my hopes for it, though it did come close...
Kelsey Grammar (Fraiser) did a brilliant job playing the character of Beast. I admit I was worried he couldn't do it, but he brought the necccessary language skills needed for Beast's character. Not to mention he kicked a lot of butt for a blue "furball".
The character of Angel, in my opinion, could've been better. He was in the movie for all of 10 minutes (15 at max.) and he was the main cause for a cure being invented, and therefore the main cause of the story line.
I was very disappointed at Rogue and Cyclops' characters. I mean Rouge was the main focus of the first film, and Cyclops is supposed to be leader of the X-Men....yet neither were in the movie for more than 10 shots. In fact Cyclops supposedly died in the first 20 minutes. Then Rogue wasn't in the movie except the beginning, and about 2 scenes at the end.
I did however like the expansion of Storm and Wolverine's character. I felt Storm needed to have a more in-depth character, being one of the more powerful mutants. Also Jean/Pheonix's roots were explained, which was also good.
So because of the storyline and intense action sequences I give this film a 8/10.....could've been better....could've been worse, but overall pretty good.