1. (Least serious or relevant) As a villain, if ever I had to face Scott in a fight, I’d just make myself a suit out of inverted eyelids.

2. (Bad) The mutants leaping to attack was a good example of lack of attention to details. Nobody wants to get into a “The Physics of Superheroes” argument in a general film critique, but think: no two X-men we see special-locomote in the same way, but an entire score of ‘bad’ mutants all happen to be flying pouncers?

3. (Good) Magneto has said for two movies that mutants are the next step, and humans will feel threatened and attack, which is why mutants can’t get along with them (and so must attack first). When Pepper Dennis loses her blue suit, his dislike of humans is exposed as being simple racism akin to the type he endured as a child (as opposed to survival-pragmatism).

4. (Bad) Why make us care about the family left to live in the car nearest the battle, then ignore them (and presumably kill them as flaming Magnetopult fodder) after the cute door-lock schtick?
4A. (Bad) Speaking of, that scene was like a caricature of Bad Hollywood. Director: “What have we got that’s new, exciting, and will spice up this movie?” Lackeys, as their knees collectively jerk: “Flying, burning, exploding cars?”

5. (Good, then Bad) They, starting at the end of the last movie, didn’t seem shy in effectively killing off sacred cows. Kill Jane? Kill the professor? Castrate Magneto? Wow, what risk-takers! Oh, wait. Apparently the director only has experience in soap-operas — main characters who experience death are instead merely *believed* to have been killed in that inescapable crash. Their identical *twin* was assassinated in Zurich.

Whatever.