A decent brainless action movie/a terrible x-men adaptation

Rating: 1/10 (29 May 2006)

It seems likely that no one involved with this film ever picked up one of the comics on which it was supposed to based. I went into this forewarned that as someone who grew up reading the comics I probably wouldn't like it, and was prepared to try and view it objectively and not measure it against the comics. That being so, I was still stunned at what a mess this movie was. It seemed like the writers had two ideas for a plot, and rather than choosing one and developing it, they simply took the parts of each that best lent themselves to extravagant special effects, and mushed them together incoherently. The result is a movie with shallow, inconsistent characters, spouting idiotic forced dialogue, throughout an implausible(even for a superhero movie) plot. It did however, have good acting, and great special effects, and the plot holes and lack of character development are easily ignored if you watch it as a brainless action movie, but if you were ever a fan of the comics you will be very disappointed.