disappointed

Rating: 4/10 (9 June 2006)

Having just watched this movie, I can't believe marvel gave it their approval, I hated the storyline, have the writers and the directors actually read the comics.
To kill off Xavier, Cyclop's & Jean Gray is almost unimaginable to fans, and the Phoenix character was totally wasted, as was some of the others, When Juggernaut was released I though, thank god finally were going to see the main story line unfold, as in the comics Juggernaught is pretty much unstoppable except by Xavier, but he becomes a bit part.
There are so many holes in this film, I don't know where to start. For one thing, Juggernaught is not a mutant, his powers are magical, so the cure would have no effect and neither would the kid. Logan's powers of regeneration suddenly increase when he fights the Phoenix, in xmen 1 he gets knocked out at the start of the film for about 2 mins through the crash, in the 2nd he's shot in the head, and is also out for about 2 mins, he has the crap blasted out of him by the Phoenix and he regenerates so fast its silly, Xavier is a more powerful telepath than jean Gray or the Phoenix, so really that whole scene should not have happened, Also in the comics Scott and Jeans love for each other overcome the Phoenix, Juggernaut is Xaviers brother.......I could go on.
Watching it from a true fans point of view, then it is a terrible film, almost non of the characters have been used properly apart from wolverine, storm and magneto.
I am still a little bewildered at what they have done with the characters in this film, especially at their choice of story line, hell you could have had a film just with the x-men battling Juggernaut, another for sinister, another with sentinels, another with apocalypse need I go on.
As an action film I would give this 8/10 as an xmen film 2/10.