When
does a ‘special effect’ stop being special? The first time Jennifer
Lawrence as a blue lady, “X-MEN: DAY OF FUTURE PAST”,  turns into a male
soldier it is a special effect and then when she turns into a beautiful
woman it is special but the twentieth time she morphs into another
person it isn’t special anymore.

When Hugh Jackman steps out of
bed and shows full male back nudity that is special and may have an
effect on the audience but it happens only one time making it a ‘special
effect’. Michael Fassbinder, who hasn’t been shy when it comes to full
frontal nudity in other films, stays dressed in this one and the first
time he puts on his helmet and suspends everyone, and everything, in the
air it is a special effect but the 4th or 5th it is a “So what?” Are
Jackman’s ‘nails’ surprising anymore?

Is it surprising that the
White House takes a battering or panes of glass of are smashed robot
like transformers walk around killing people? I didn’t think so. How
many mutant X-Men and X-Women are too many? Or do you just stop talking
after Wolverine (Jackman), Mystique (Lawrence), Kitty Pryde (Ellen
Page), Iceman (Shawn Ashmore), Storm (Halle Berry) Magneto (Ian McKellan
future, Fassbender past) Professor X (Patrick Stewart Future, James
McAvoy past), Blink (Fan Bingbing), Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Quicksilver
(Evan Peters), Rogue (Anna Paquin) or the 50th X-Men or is it when you
suspect Richard Nixon (Mark Camacho) might be a mutant?

There are
as many story lines (screenplay by Simon Kinberg, story by Jane
Goldman, Mattew Vaughn and Kinberg) as there are X-Men, X-Women and
mutants but all are easy to follow, if you are interested in following
any of them. Director Bryan Singer keeps the 2 hour, 11 minute movie
going at a fast pace with all the special effects.

It is easy to
see that paying the extra dollars to see it at IMAX and 3 D would
probably be worth the money but, as far as I am concerned, this is my
last foray into Marvel comic movies and other films that are mainly
special effects that stop being special.