Good Movie, but really slow at times.

Rating: 7/10 (26 May 2006)

I saw it last night. I like the movie as a whole. I just felt the movie dragged on at points. The start of the movie is great, but then it seems to get bogged down in slow paced dialogue which in certain parts which does nothing for the progression of the story, then it gets back into the action. In addition, I felt let down about the killing of major characters in ways which seemed like the film makers were just trying to unload the huge salaries, those actors commanded in order to make X-Men 4. Not that I'm complaining, I'm not a big James Marsden fan, but he was in the movie for what felt like 2min. (What was the point in having him at all???) All in all I do think Brett Ratner did a good job, but I feel Bryan Singer understood or "felt" the X-men series a little more. The movie felt like something was missing...I'm not sure if it's due to hype or not. But I still enjoyed it, but not as much as X-Men United or the original X-Men.