great movie if you don't like X-Men

Rating: 4/10 (27 May 2006)

This movie was kind of fun if you know nothing about X-Men. If you've ever read anything in the X-Men series or seen the expertly done TV cartoon from the 1990s then this movie will just seem awful.
Sure liberties must be taken when transferring to film. Backstories changed, but this movie does it Batman and Robin style, the way they wasted Bane. Juggernaut is apparently a mutant and not powered by a crystal, and Xavier has no idea that they are related... Colossus suddenly has no discernible Russian accent.
Can you live with that? Maybe. Except the promise of the last film was a huge ending and this film is hollow. I won't say who dies, but Brett Ratner and the writers seem to think that killing characters guarntees that the audience will marvel at their bold story telling. And yet, with each major character they kill for relatively no reason it becomes obvious that the joy of these comics was lost on them.
This movie was so disappointing. I can't reveal anything in real detail, but if its the end of the X movies its really sad to go out this way with the Phoenix wasted and lots of great characters just wasted.
All they had to do was lift a great story from the comics. Dark Phoenix. Onslaught. Rise of Apocalypse. Something involving Bishop. Genosha and the Sentinals. The second movie lifted from the comics and guess what...IT WAS AWESOME.
Save your $10 for a better movie.