What a disaster! Rush Hour X-Men

Rating: 1/10 (27 May 2006)

Clearly, Marvel's loss is DC and the red over-underwear's gain. Ratner's made an ungodly mess of the most exciting superhero franchise around. What's the goddamn hurry anyway? Why rush everything and then skid into a climactic action sequence that simply fails to grab you? Characters and good potential plot lines simply fail to develop and even the ones that debut well simply have no time to sink claws, mitts or anything in before they're gone. Bryan Singer's intelligent, steady and superbly hyper-kinetic style is badly missed. The scriptwriters need to be tonked too. And the last scene!? El cheapo maaan. X-Men RIP. This truly could be the franchise's last stand for some time to come. Sad.
Oh, and does anybody remember Nightcrawler?