Difficult to watch for X-Fans

Rating: 6/10 (28 May 2006)

Very difficult to watch this movie if you are an X-Men fan because of the various deaths of the certain characters, and if you lose your power because of a mutant cure, your dead to me. Magneto un-characteristically surrounds himself with these punker mutants with tattoos and piercing. There are some really bad lines from Magneto in this one and they shoved so much material into this movie that really important scenes between characters like Pyro and Iceman are really short. Phoenix (Former Jean-Grey) is supposed to be the focus but she is in a trance the whole movie. Jean's alternate personality is a marijuana smoker or something. They should have made this movie longer to have more time for the new characters like Angel or not have introduced them at all. The director didn't do a bad job actually the movie is visually stunning, but the script is what's lacking.
If I could change one thing about this movie, I'd have Pyro kill Rouge first thing just so we didn't have to watch those stupid ice skating and jealousy scenes. I mean, she's the only character that can use any power of another and they just let her sit there doing nothing.