Where was Iceman?

Rating: 7/10 (15 September 2005)

I was craving mutations and I rented this flick. Aside from the fact that these characters are all just too immortal, and their powers just too much, what annoyed me is that at the end --
WARNING, HERE'S A SPOILER:
Where was Iceman during the dam break? He's sitting idly in the plane. All he needs to do is go out and freeze a protective barrier of water. He doesn't have to freeze the whole body of water, just a layer by the dam itself. Thick enough, to buy them time. Actually, he should stand around and supervise, over the next few days, letting the water slowly out of the reservoir by unfreezing the top portion of the ice dam. I kept waiting for him to do this, but then Jean Grey goes out and uses supernatural powers to help them instead, and the dam itself fails. Very silly. I guess when you mutate, you lose some common sense and keep reaching for the fancier powers.
I'm sure this dam thing and the ice solution has been covered in the 927 other posts, but I didn't find it from my scans, so I thought I'd repeat the complaint. Other than that, the movie shows an interesting world that I'd like to be a part of. Mutant powers. Metaphoric. Cool.