bill and I gave this movie a 7. I was disappointed because i thought that it would be close to a 9 since that's how i rated the other X-men films.the story line was weak and involved CIA and bombs and 3rd world wars and it was linked (aided by old news clips) with the Cuban missile crisis when Kennedy was in office. There was a subplot which was exciting and that was Magneto's revenge against the Nazi (played wonderfully by Kevin Bacon) who killed his mother in the concentration camp.
Hugh Jackman did a cameo which was inspired and funny though way too short. I really missed him in this film.
I can't really put my finger on any one thing that led to my general sense of ennui and lassitude during the movie. Just didn't get engaged with any of the characters. However, Magneto, Raven and Kevin Bacon were great. On the other hand, James McAvoy as Charles (later Professor X - acted superbly by Patrick Stewart) was horribly miscast. He looked years younger than the other mutants especially Magneto and he was always lecturing and bossing people around and screwing up his eyes and tilting his head in a weird way when he was reading people's minds. He has absolutely no stage presence or magnetism.
and January Jones was in this film too; fortunately, for only brief spells of time. I guess her agent figures if she appears in enough movies she'll learn to act.!
Bill and I were the oldest people in the theater by about 35 years!!!!!!
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