Poor Directorship spoiled a potentially great movie

Rating: 7/10 (24 July 2006)

After watching the trailer for this movie I eagerly anticipated the involvement in it of one of my favourite X-Men characters - Apocalypse. It was he who presented "The Cure" to Mutants and contrary to the movie, "The Cure" was a ruse to trick people and transform them into Apocalypse's elite guard - The four horsemen of the Apocalypse. In retrospect, I would have been happier had the movie revealed "The Cure" to be a fraud. If the film had centred on this instead of the unconvincing path that the movie did eventually take, then I think the movie would have been unbelievable.
Therefore, because "The Cure" is an actual cure in this film, inferring that Mutant evolution is a disease, then this is the film's ultimate failing. By curing the mutants the X-Men saga ends with the sad notion of humanity rejecting mutant evolution as much as many people reject Stem cell research today. The Humans win, the Mutants lose and evolution is halted by fear of the unknown.
Because of the shortness of the movie it is hard to comment on whether it would have been excellent had it been longer. Instead, the movie gave off an aura of what can only be described as amateur directorship. Brett Ratner is no Bryan Singer.