A good movie

While the Spider-Man franchise is getting more and more disappointing after each installment, here we have a super-hero franchise which has been incredibly rejuvenated and it’s getting better each time around. Indeed, I thought that ‘X-Men: First Class’ was pretty good, better than the original trilogy but I still thought it was rather overrated. This time, they gave us a stronger story, the best story so far involving those mutants and I was above all fascinated by how conflicted their relationships were . Of course, the actions scenes were pretty impressive, especially those sentinels (I mean, the ones from the future) looked really awesome. Still, somehow, I wasn't entirely convinced. I mean, it was really close to be really amazing but they were not there yet, in my opinion. The first thing that bothered me was the fact that I didn’t see any reason with Kitty Pride had to keep control of Logan. I mean, at some point, they all got the message in the past, they have to change history otherwise most of them will die so why does the future Logan has to stick around? They could just leave them fix the whole thing and move somewhere else before the sentinels come. Furthermore, even though the whole time travel concept was interesting, it was still just a gimmick to have Hugh Jackman, the most bankable X-Men actor, to be with the younger cast of ‘X-Men: First Class’ in order to boost the box-office revenue. Furthermore, they pulled the same trick as in ‘Star Trek’ with this time travel storyline which basically obliterates everything that happened in the first trilogy. Honestly, as a viewer, the result is that I felt tricked since all the emotions I invested in the previous movies became rather meaningless. Still, even though it was not a home run yet, like I said before, these guys are improving the formula each time around (thank God, Bryan Singer finally got a hit after all his flops) and it is definitely worth a look.

7/10