Paternalistic, abusive, mindless

Rating: Null/10 (20 November 2016)

Years ago I used to see the X-Men as animation on TV. And I found that funny bordering interesting. The best part were probably the colors and the fighting scenes. I have never seen the comics, nor do I care about them. Watching this movie reflects my amusement from years ago with the cartoons. And boy, what a treat! The good guys are paternalistic going beyond dictatorial. Some of the bad guys are down right racist or xenophobe to be more precise. And other bad guys are just bad guys in a pointless way.
The logic of this movie, story, whatever is just a showcase of stupid new age beliefs that have nothing to do with reality. Some sort of Lord of the Rings with a Terminator 2 theme badly pasted over. The invented mutants are aberrant. The opposing team probably started to make some politically correct anti-xenophobic message. But they are just reinforcing the xenophobia by being such unreal creations. Anything that can be ugly is amplified. Jean? A woman. So she is hysterical, easy, and worse of all: uncontrollable in her bad self. Why should anybody be controllable? It's for their own good, of course.
Else, everybody is born a prince and there seem to be no poor mutants. Only people who can afford to pay for a private plane in the basement of a nicely painted concentration camp.
Credible? Ridiculous scenes build by a rudimentary mind. People who are persecuted, who don't feel well in their freak role need elaborated Halloween costumes to make themselves even more obvious. Right. That is the way a mutant would go. And people call this kind of logic "profound".
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