better than i expected on repeated viewing

Rating: 7/10 (13 January 2008)

The first time I saw this I was not thrilled with it and may have only given it a 6 maybe even a 5. But on a second viewing I really enjoyed it. The special effects were awesome. The acting was what we should expect from a comic book movie. The cast was for the most part perfect and no complaints there. The problems I had mostly to do with the writing. The introduction of the new members of the brotherhood was really dumb and then they become instant go to guys. The other thing is that a lot of the villains were not fleshed out. I would have loved to seen just little scenes where some of the lesser known mutants got to at least fight a little bit. Or at least make some of the villains have some sort of power instead of just getting their butts kicked at the end. The adding of the power of being able to sense a mutants powers was stupid and did not help at all. The movie was still really enjoyable to watch. Ellen Page being in it did not hurt at all either. I did like how the writers did not feel bad about killing off any of the main characters. The last scene was cool and I hope they leave it at that. I do wish they did more with Colassas. There were plenty of things that I would have done differently just from my stand point, but overall I was pleased. It was fun and it did feel as if there was some sort of ending even it was open ended. I want to see an iceman spin off just because he had some much potential in the comic.