Commonly acknowledge as a 50% series, meaning that every other film was rubbish, Days of future past was rubbish so this film, if it followed the pattern should be good. Let's leave personal opinion out of this review but start by talking about the one thing that let the film down- the end fight scene. All marvel films have this sudden idea about destroying the world to create a new one in a really long, predictable fight sequence which is about ten minutes too long and doesn't have any surprising twists which could justify the length of it. After five minutes it becomes boring, you want it to just cut to the next bit, the predictable part that you had worked out within the first half an hour- guys- get a move on, if we are checking our watches during the film it's a sign to cut some of the boredom out! Every Marvel/ Action film now has an overdone fight sequence (with the exception of Kingsman and Deadpool (both of which were perfect)) which is predictable and boring. Now when we pay a stupid amount of money for an overpriced cinema ticket we want to see something different, something exciting and entertaining, yet for some reason we end up seeing the same idea in a similar way- let's fight to save the world- it's only been done 100 times before and happens in every action movie. The predictability of it before even sitting down and watching the film makes you bored.
Hugh Jackman- he was good in it and it is sad to think that we will soon be saying goodbye to him as Wolverine. He has served the character well but his time is up- his body needs a rest and lets face it, if it keeps going the way that it is, a guy like him doesn't need to be making any more terrible movies. Michael Fassbender- much better in this film than in any other film. A similar kind of predictability to the film and character, the change we all knew was coming but he was not as angry and actually played the character in a different way to what we have seen before. James McAvoy is growing on me as Charles Xavier. The character will always be the same but he is starting to look like Patrick Stewart's heir. His performance, along with everyone else's was a lot better in this film. The sad part was losing Alex, he was one of the best characters in X-Men First Class and I really hope (but it is a fools hope) that they find a way of bringing him back. I think that I still prefer Framke Janssen as Jean Grey and i'm not sure that I can see Sophie Turner merging into Framke Janssen but Sophie Turner does play that younger character a little more convincingly to the marvel character that we know from the comics than Framke Janssen has managed.
This was a good film, it was let down by the end and a plot that suggested that it didn't really know what to do with itself. The problem with making films based on one part of a huge comic series is that it is never going to really work on it is own, it is always going to be really difficult to pull off and as this film proves and X-Men continues to prove, it doesn't really work. DeadPool is the only one that has managed it and that film was a stroke of genius!
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