Expect the worst

Rating: 2/10 (28 May 2006)

This movie was an extreme disappointment. A slap in the face of X-men fans everywhere. Any and all previews were tainted to show only the best. Now, while I realize this is the intent of trailers for every movie, take my advice. Stick to watching the trailers and imagining in your own mind how the movie plays itself out. Save your $10 for something more useful, like Pepto-Bismol or Tylenol.
The fight scene between Iceman and Pyro was my major gripe for this movie. Said scene lasted perhaps a minute, if that, and was one of those simple "i'm going to throw a ray of power at you, you throw a ray of power at me. our two rays of power meet in between the two of us, and the one who is stronger wins". I'd rather watch firefighters going after the infernos in California on the news than watch that crappy fight scene again. Where'd matter surfing go? What about the fire-shaping and the like? Oh, we'll have Magneto throw cars and let Pyro turn them into big ol' Molatov "cocktails" but when it comes to the Pyro/Iceman fight, we'll let it end with a head-butt. What the world were these people thinking? As for the other characters, I understand why Nightcrawler wasn't in this movie. An entire video game was released to explain him going off on his own to accomplish "something" and he's not back yet. OK. I can deal with that.
Angel, aka pretty boy with wings that has 3 minutes of on screen time, and a flashback (oooh that'll draw the fans in).
Juggernaut's part went completely afield from the comic series. (Let's make him a natural born mutant, we'll forget about the gem entirely, no one's interested in that. Oh and his family connections? bah, forget about'm) He seemed to be more of a whiny wanna-be than an accomplished warrior. "I'm the juggernaut, b****." (Edited to maintain IMDb's guidelines) i could go on and on about the characters and their crappy parts, their messed up psyche and the like but i won't, i'm sure there are many, many more reviews which can tell it in a much better frame of mind than myself.
i do however feel obligated to bring up this point. The assault of the Worthington Labs on Alcatraz was probably the worst deployment of troops I've seen since Bush started his little war in Iraq ( but we won't go there) "I'll just throw away all these little unimportant men here. No matter that they're fellow mutants, they're pawns. Let'm die." "Oh, now that most of them are dead...NOW i'll use this mutant here to knock away the plastic weapons, no matter that i could use the surroundings against the soldiers, I'll let others do my work for me..." "Oh look, it's Wolverine. I'll just beat him up and...lose my powers thanks to Beast. Urk...urg." ...and that was Magneto's part in the assault in a nutshell.
There was too much disorganization in this movie. Trying to accomplish too much without thinking of the consequences of putting such a hodgepodge film on the open market. Will the director get rich off of this film? Probably. Will any self-respecting comic book fan ever watch another movie made by this loser? I hope not. I really really do As stated before, save your money and instead go buy yourself a carnival mirror that makes everyone that looks into it appear skinny or fat. It'll be a much better use and probably more entertaining too