Dear David Hayter (AKA Solid Snake):
You seriously couldn't write a screenplay for an X-Men movie in which Storm has a bigger role than getting the shit kicked out of her repeatedly?
And has more personality than a cardboard box?
Where the female characters weren't a. totally ineffectual (Storm, Jean Gray, Rogue), b. mostly characterized as being love interests/scared (Jean Gray, Rogue) or c. have powers expressed in lethal sexuality, as in the vagina dentata phobia (Rogue, Mystique)?
I'm not trying to say it's a misogynistic movie or something. My chief bone to pick with it was that I was bored. I mean, I watched it... but I was bored. Another bone I am picking is with the characterization of Wolverine, who in the more recent comics generally came off like a nearly-feral monster who was barely on one side of turning berserk at his introduction. I like that Wolverine. Now he's another vaguely gruff dude with no conviction, barely acceptably differentiated from Cyclops to act as a foil. Of course, that Wolverine can't be used as a POV character; Rogue can't be used as a POV character, either, because she's both too low-powered and not much more than a walking McGuffin. So of course, in this little plot, Wolverine is the only POV character that really makes sense.
My point of view on this is that they should have saved his introduction for the second movie, or given him a smaller role in the first. He's a fan favorite, like Nightcrawler. Fair enough. So is the Joker. The other characters needed a hell of a lot more space to shine than they were given, and a much, much better script writer.
Also, if they could've excised the little love triangle between Jean, Cyclops, and Wolverine, I might have been happier. It just feels awkward at this stage of the plot.
Also also, cooler action sequences. I.e. ones that didn't suck.
Also also also, someone who could act playing Storm.
And some good jokes.
At least X-2 was amazing.