| Title |
Year |
Rating |
Rank |
Review |
| X2: X-Men United | 2003 | 80 | 1 | - one of the best comic book movies ever made, showing a large amount of the mutants we all know and love while actually taking the time to give most of them some backstory and drama | | Wolverine, The | 2013 | 65 | 2 | - You know what's awesome? How much better this movie is than the first Wolverine flick, and how well they handled making Wolverine actually look threatened. There's some pretty bad pacing issues, though, as the central third of the movie just kind of drags on compared to the first and final acts, and the ending feels tacked on as opposed to the great climactic point that it should have been. A few of the fight scenes were shot in that fucking atrocious Bourne-inspired "shaky cam" way, which was incredibly annoying given that the fights themselves looked well choreographed and were, otherwise, filmed very well. Hugh Jackman nails it out of the park, of course, and I appreciated the dreams/nightmares where Logan interacted with Jean. This was a damn good continuation of the original X-Men film series that doesn't mess with the timeline or continuity (like the first Wolvie did). I'm really hoping that Jackman has more than just a quick cameo in the upcoming Days of Future Past, just because he owns the role so damn well. | | X-Men | 2000 | 65 | 2 | - fun action movie, but the allure of "the X-Men are in a movie" wore off quickly | | X-Men: First Class | 2011 | 65 | 2 | - the majority of it is on par with the first movie and, at times, on par with the second, but the whole thing starts to fall flat quickly without any one character or performance standing out like Hugh Jackman/Wolverine | | X-Men: The Last Stand | 2006 | 40 | 5 | - fuck Brett Ratner and fuck this bastardization of the Phoenix/Dark Phoenix saga | | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | 2009 | 30 | 6 | |
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