Saw it this morning. I should preface that I don't read the comics but did watch the cartoons in the 90's and all the movies. Onto my thoughts.

Loved the opening, wasting no time and it was nice to see some familiar faces along with some new ones as well. I loved that the sentinels adapted to their opponent as well, really made them a formidable foe in the movie as Opposed to cannon fodder in the show. I was in for a pleasant surprise that they were projecting bishop's conscience back a few days to warn them etc so I bought into it when they suggested to go back 50 years with Logan.

I liked where Charles was emotionally in the film as well having lost all he held dear and hit bottom. Liked the bit where Eric was accused of killing JFK, and the reveal that he was trying to save him (Really Eric? You've stopped bullets before so you kinda screwed the pooch there).

Quicksilver was great but really OP. Wish they had a reason for leaving him behind etc.

Also liked Charles looking into Logan's future/past to see his future. Really liked Tyrion in the movie as well.

The third act seemed to be kind of a let down IMO. The action was decent in the future but no where near as exciting as the opening. Knowing that my characters could die in the future (save for Kitty and Logan) it had no emotional weight at then end for their deaths bc only the ramifications in the past can affect the future so it was all mediocre splendor with no emotional investment. The action in the past was meh at best. I did like Raven, who they built up a lot this movie, to have the choice in the end to kill or not. But with that it didn't feel like that scene have much heart or weight to it so it just kinda fell flat to me.

I enjoyed when Logan woke up in the new "future/present". The "curtain call" of all the characters etc. it's a reset/course correction IMO and it almost seems kinda safe, satisfying but still safe. Not like CA where the events there affected the Disney Marvel universe. Hope they can do that for apocalypse in 2016.

All in all best xmen movie. Not as great as CA2, leaps and bounds ahead of Spider-Man 2.

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Posted by OMLandshark

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Posted on 5/24/14 at 11:08 pm to LE610N

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The third act seemed to be kind of a let down IMO. The action was decent in the future but no where near as exciting as the opening. Knowing that my characters could die in the future (save for Kitty and Logan) it had no emotional weight at then end for their deaths bc only the ramifications in the past can affect the future so it was all mediocre splendor with no emotional investment. The action in the past was meh at best. I did like Raven, who they built up a lot this movie, to have the choice in the end to kill or not. But with that it didn't feel like that scene have much heart or weight to it so it just kinda fell flat to me.

Well, I have to disagree. Singer consciously chose a finale without a ton of action, and knew he had to keep it contained to Magneto, Mystique, and Xavier, and nothing else. He didn't want it to be an over-the-top action sequence, and I think he completely succeeded. With Hope being the main theme of the film, I think he really brought that message home with the showdown at the end between the three characters. Blame the other X-Men films for falling flat on the action scenes, but I think it's a bit unfair with this film, since the only true action scenes were in the future and not the past in this film.

This post was edited on 5/24/14 at 11:10 pm

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