Spent Memorial Day weekend at youngest son's brand new house. Since it rained Saturday, we went to the movies. This is the newest Xmen flick, just out. It might as well have been titled "Xmen versus the Mummy".
Lotta CGI special effects. Explosions, fires, collisions, Magneto's strange powers destroying whole cities. According to the rather weak plot, an God/Demon/Evil Sorcerer from Egypt of 3600 BC comes to life in fairly modern times and starts doing evil. Never mind that First dynasty Egyptian Old Kingdom didn't get started until about 2900 BC. This is the prequel Xmen, set in the 1970s or 1980's. Whole new cast, all younger. The guy playing a younger Charles Xavier isn't as good in the role as Patrick Stewart was. Nice costumes, the chicks look sharp and sexy, the guys look hunky, mostly. Hugh Jackman gets a brief (5-10 minute on screen) part. He never gets to speak a line, he just kills a bunch of soldiers, and the last we see of him he is dashing off into a snow covered forest, bare foot, and wearing only Bermuda shorts. Does adamantium warm a body as well as make it bulletproof?
Nobody has a line as good as Storm's line in the first Xmen, "Have you ever seen a toad struck by lightning?"
OK for kids, or dyed in the wool Xmen fans, but not as good as the first two Xmen flicks.
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