I had very low expectations for this movie, but was surprised to find it not quite as bad as I had anticipated. That being said, this is not a good movie and I don’t suggest that anyone pay to watch it.

X-Men fans will probably be disappointed with the movie’s numerous inaccuracies. The movie starts by introducing Wolverine and Sabretooth as brothers, contrary to what is found in any source material. If the movie’s going to be about the “origins” of these characters, the least they could do is get their origins right. The script was a pretty severe re-write — almost as strange as writing in Lex Luthor as the older brother of Superman.

Someone could compose a college thesis about all the ways that the movie was a misrepresentation of each character’s actual origins, but I will resist the temptation. There’s just one other thing that has to be pointed out, and that’s the way the movie handled Deadpool.

Deadpool, probably the second reason why anyone may have wanted to see this movie, was well played by Ryan Reynolds. Even so, not even Reynolds could save the character from the writers. That thing that they called Deadpool at the end of the movie was completely manufactured, begging such questions as: Why did they sew his mouth shut? How can “the merc with a mouth” have his mouth sewn shut for half of his screen time? Is there no justice in the world?

The movie suffered the other predictable flaws of a comic book/action movie. Bizarre dialogue, mediocre acting, and as many deus ex machinas as there were mutants. But what was the real surprise? This movie even managed to be boring.