Continuing on my review of the X-Men movie, there were a couple of things that bothered me. Don't read if you don't want to be spoiled.

1) The big fight scene at the end, where Magneto sends in the few hundred or so anonymous mutants. Remember, they have to be mutants because Magento rejected Mystique when she lost her powers.

So mutant after mutant rushes forward, and is either killed by Wolverine/Beast or shot by the dart. Question is, what happened to these mutants powers? Not one of them turned into a fireball, turned invisible (that we know of), raced at the speed of sound, and so on. They just jumped off the bridge, and ran right into the soldiers and their darts. Some just ran straight to their deaths with no apparent reason or hope. Perhaps Magneto had them pumped up with excitement. But if I was there, I'd be like “Hey, I'm here to help Magneto. You go first and I'll be right behind you...“

I was expecting at least one of them to have some special power they could use to avoid the darts. Or some type of Wolverine/mutant fight.

2) The bridge. Yes, the famous bridge scene. Magneto reconstructs the golden gate bridge so that it attaches the mainland to Alcatraz. The question everyone is asking is, why did he do it? Why not just float his mutant army over on some huge piece of metal - why the whole bridge?

3) Rogue. Why was she in this movie? What was her character's purpose?

Actually, to put it another way, I think the writers wanted to show that not all mutants like their powers or find them useful. Rogue's power was exploited in X-Men 1, as she was used in the device that tried to turn everyone into mutants. But she can't fight, and clearly has no “role” at this point. But she could have been removed from the movie completely, and the movie would not be any different. I think the “don't like my powers” thing could have been shown another way.

4) And lastly, the X-Men characters (Storm et al) were struggling with the concept - why would any mutant want to cure themselves. To me, that was never the issue. The issue was, when a parent discovers their child is a mutant, would they “cure” them? With the cure, not another mutant will be allowed to grow to an adult. The movie never mentioned this, although clearly the inventor of the cure did so to cure his own son. That's the issue. “Why cure yourself?” is largely irrelevant.

That's all for now. It's a good sign I guess that this movie is still on my mind a few days after I watched it.