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Saw this on a long flight. If this wasn't intended as some summer blockbuster or even an X-men movie, it could have been a very good movie. Consider the main protagonists: one is an idealist striving to fit into a world that fears/hates him, while the other has faced the worst of humanity and is unwilling to accept that the future can be different from the past. But this is a summer popcorn movie, and a comic book movie as well, so we get a myriad of extra characters who add nothing but an array of CGI-enhanced effects and catchphrases ("Can you fly it?" "I hope so- I designed it!") and winking at the audience (bald jokes, Wolverine) with the exception of Mystique, perhaps, though with the plot flying by there's not a lot of time to explore her motivations for falling in with Magneto at the end. And motivations really are what the movie is lacking in: We get the appropriate background for why Magneto is the way he is. Why does Xavier care about people or helping the US or any of it? Bacon says he hates the Nazis, but he's as much of an evil caricature as any Nazi villain- why does he want to destroy the world. And trying to ascribe any motive to his mutant cohorts is useless as well: they just are the Bad Guys (though they join up with Magneto without worrying about him murdering their former boss at the end). It's pretty much standard CGI-summer-fare, and that's too bad, because the dynamics could have allowed for some really good social commentary and character development. 2.5/5
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