Amazing Special effects, but overall quite bad.

Rating: Null/10 (5 May 2003)

Warning this review may contain spoilers.
Just been reading through the reviews looking for some people who might have felt the same way about the film as I did and I'm quite disappointed. The special effects were good, but the film really became an ordeal for me after the 1st 30 mins. Some of the acting was also quite bad, especially from that red glasses guy towards the end crying about his girlfriend.
Maybe it is that you have to read the comics to appreciate this film but I really couldn't understand the reasoning behind many of the x-mens actions.

For a start what was the purpose of cerberous meant to be, to communicate with mutants why not just use a phone? Why would Picard build a machine that could destroy all the mutants just by putting on a hat and thinking hard about them? Is he some sort of Moron? And if he has the power to read minds (of mutants) and freeze time (for humans) how did he managed to get kidnapped by a combination of mutants and humans, couldn't he just freeze the humans and realise that the mutant was going to flip?
It also boggles me why the mutants care if a bunch of humans want to have a war with them if they are all seemingly invincible (wolverine gets shot in the head and then comes back to life, although admittedly psychic lady decides to end it all for some reason). If the x-men and humans had a war the x-men would win easily.
I haven't seen the first film so maybe this is why some of these things aren't clear, it also isn't clear how the mutants are being oppressed, the teleportaman at the start makes out he wants freedom. Er....freedom to do what....he just breaks into the white house and batters a load of special ops guys....it's not as if it's going to be a cake walk to oppress someone that hard.
Did iceman's girlfriend have powers? I couldn't tell everytime they started getting off together she would go "oooh, I don't want to hurt you", the only thing of interest she did was take her top off and fly the x men plane (badly).
Final plothole I'd like to get off my chest... If teleporta man can only teleport places he can see how did he manage to teleport back onto the plane? Surely being that foggy, and the plane travelling at what, mach1,2 there would be no way he could see where he was teleporting to?
My overall rating:
Action: 10/10 Plot: 1/10 Overall: 5/10