total crap - *perhaps a very minor spoiler or two*

Rating: 3/10 (26 May 2006)

I give it a '3' for the effects and exciting fight scenes. Other than that, I don't remember ever having seen a movie before where all the meaningful dialogue and plot points were able to be condensed within the trailer. That's what this movie was -- a 104-minute trailer that lacked any significant story, character development, or dramatic elements. The new (or sometimes newly involved) characters could not have been any flatter if they were penciled on a 4-panel comic book page. A story that, at the start, seemed like it would evoke some thought on racism and human rights (in the X-Men tradition) literally went up in a puff of ash and degenerated into an excuse for the final throw-down between Magneto's 'brotherhood' and the NeXt-Men. If they make another one, I really hope Bryan Singer Returns; he seems to have a much firmer grip on what these people can be about.