WorthyStevens
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bosef982 said:Well, then people here like aimless and empty action films. Good for you. You have XXX 1 and 2 for that as well.
I didn't find the action inspiring at all. It was closely shot at times -- the Jean House battle to be specific -- and was clunky and chopped up via editting never giving a consistent flow or rhythm to the choreography beats. Callisto vs. Storm was boring, constantly interuppted, and simply blaise. Iceman and Pyro, as other's have said, was bland.
And the generic toads at the end fighting all the X-Men was hokey, if not worse. The car bombs started cool, but just got boring. Wow. More fire and explosions. Wow.
As someone said, I didn't care who won or lost. I didn't give a flying f-ck. The film's action fails on this alone. Action without suspense is just meaningless action and if some people like that, fine -- do it. But if this is the low standard we're holding movies too now just to coax our own fanboyism, then fine, do it.
But you can't live in denial forever.
First, I hated the xXx movies.

And I won't "deny", some of the action in the movie was mindless. But I don't really care, as the movie still carried plot and dynamic to it, despite mindless action sequences.
That said, I very much enjoyed the action in this movie.