PG-13
Running time: 1 hour 27 minutes
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Director: Brett Ratner
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Kelsey Grammer, James Marsden, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Aaron Stanford, Shawn Ashmore, Ellen Page, Daniel Cudmore, Ben Foster, Vinnie Jones, Eric Dane, Dania Ramirez, Cameron Bright.
Synopsis: After a controversial "cure" is discovered, mutants can choose to retain their superhuman abilities or give up their unique gifts and become "normal." When peaceful mutant leader Charles Xavier clashes with his militant counterpart, Magneto, the battle lines are drawn for the war to end all wars.
Review: I'm gonna keep this review really simple with two main points. Firstly, a switch of director will definitely correspond to a shift in filming style and other relevant factors. Trading in hearts and emotions for explosions and actions, the film shamelessly exploits mutant abilities for its own good. A guaranteed big box-office bucks from the established franchise fandom is already suffice enough for the filmmakers to approve vacuous, crowd-pleasing action sequences. Secondly, it's an extremely rare case for Hollywood to allow the killing of a few notably pivotal franchise players (getting rid of key characters literally means a franchise suicide). So, for that I salute the balls and guts of the filmmakers in making that bold decision of pulling the plugs. After all, nobody will ever stay dead in comic book universe.
Rating: 1/5 Stars
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