Fun, but leaves you wanting more.

Rating: 6/10 (26 May 2006)

X-Men was disappointing.
Brett Ratner was a completely wrong choicethe film was being billed as something epic, yet the whole film was saturated with the same homogeneous emotion. There was no climax, no point at which the heart races. Instead of getting some intense, emotionally powerful film (which the story was perfectly capable of supporting), we get what is more like a dragged out television movie; the death scenes are anti-climactic, the story brief and episodic, and the effects sometimes cheesy and usually sub-par.
The film does contain some good parts (I enjoyed the protests), but overall, it could have been better. Instead of a blockbuster that carried its audience along emotionally (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope), it is a blockbuster that, like Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith, is polished yet hollow, and like a mint flavored star burst, is enjoyable, but leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth.