Could have been great.

Rating: 6/10 (3 June 2006)

If it ain't broke, then why fix it? If only the Hollywood people could get this into their heads. First the black costumes, then the re-hashing of all the characters. Vinne Jones as Juggernaught, with a heavy British accent, terrible. Why are they always fighting Magneto? It's like the Ninja Turtles, up against the Shredder. Are all the other supervillans on holiday or something? Phoenix was supposed to be an awesome mutant who destroyed entire worlds, and was a threat to the existence of the universe itself. But in this movie, she just walked around with a silly pout on her face. Where was the danger, the immediacy, that meant she had to be killed before she wiped out all of creation? And to make matters worse, where are all the characters? Most of them did nothing. Professor X and Cyclops were killed at an early stage, and as for the rest of them, you could have cut them out of the movie, and it would have made no difference at all. After saying all this, i feel the movie will be a hit, but only because of the names associated with it, not for the quality of the script. People will leave the theatre with thinking: what on earth was all that about?