Good scenes, bad movie

Rating: 5/10 (5 June 2006)

This movie was an amalgamation of comic book stories, but they were both distorted and just fit together badly. It is fine to make changes from the source material, as this is usually necessary to some extent. That is not my main problem. I felt that it was not a cohesive movie and story. It may just be that it was so much poorer than the books that my disappointed soured my experience.
My advice would be watch the movie for the eye candy it is. See the cool scenes on the big screen. Then, if you really like the X-Men, open the Dark Pheonix Saga and From the Ashes comic sagas, and you will appreciate much better stories that actually have good characterization.