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Not Scary Enough - Not X-Men Enough


This is the films ultimate flaw.

The idea was interesting but they didn't sell it successfully and they signposted what was happening far too much. By the time you got to the end, it felt more silly than scary.

But I applaud the effort to do something different with this genre. They lacked the nerve to fully commit though.

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Yeah, funny film. I didn't realise it was supposed to be an x-man film until they started mentioning them. Also the locked away asylum and the blank faced match-stick men were definitely horror genre tropes whilst the actual final battle strayed into fantasy territory. It was all a bit of a hodge-podge by the end - not terrible but not particularly good either.

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