My major grievences:

1. Waste of potencially great supporting cast: The supporting cast, both brotherhood and x-men, is mostly there to add a sense of BIG numbers. BULLSHIT! Plus, they had ZERO character development.

2. Waste of major characters: WHAT THE FUCK WAS THE PHEONIX THERE FOR ANYWAY?! First, they had an ÜBER bullshit explanation for how the phoenix came to be, second, she was just there to kill off a couple of major characters (the first one for absolutly no good reason other than to clear off screen space for Ms. "huge ego" Berry, and also going completly against character motivation). Plus, killing off Charles was ridiculous. Even if it's the phoenix we're talking about here, he's supposed to be the most badass telepath in the world, you don't kill him off so easy (and the setup for the "extra" ending is too stupid to warrant any mention).

3. The "cure". Waaaaaaaay too easy of a plot device to get rid of the bulk of supporting cast members, and major ones too.

4. CORNY AS SHIT ENDING! I cannot forgive that ending in any way. A couple of mutants wipe out the entire alcatraz island, cause billions worth of damage, kill many dozens of people and after a few months we're supposed to believe everybody just accepted them, all is well in the world, everyone gets along, life goes on, all is forgiven, Xavier's dream comes true!
FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU IN YOUR FUCKING CORNY ASSES WITH A FUCKING CORNCOB!

5. Collossus and Iceman looked laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame. And that dragonball z-ish fight between iceman and pyro... i can't even describe how absurdly lame that is. I cryed out a loud "oh, come on!" at that point. Biggest cliché since the rising above clouds thing in Matrix revolutions.

Oh, and also, beast was laaaaaaaaaaaame and underused (and as everyone else, under-developed).

The two things i liked about it were the power displays. The bridge thing for instance. THAT'S magneto, not some pansy old fart that can be simply locked in a plastic cell.
Storm actually using her weather powers, not just remembering she had them when she was in danger.
And phoenix, albeit massively underused, obliterating things at a molecular level. Niiiice.

And the other, althought not quite what i would've loved to see, Collossus making a special throw with wolverine against a "sentinel" of sorts. They showed it in a pretty lame way, but, i can't not mention that.


Acting = 4/10
Plot = 2/10
Action = 8/10

Overall (not average) = 5/10

And as a reference, i'd give the first one 7/10 and the second 9/10

Seriously, i thought Singer's absence wouldn't make that much of a difference, given his confessed lack of knowledge of the x-men stories in general, but damn if his touch wasn't severely missing in here... What a fucking let down.

All work and no play makes me..., well, you know the rest.