[adam]

I thought the second one was totally bleah, so, yeah, I'm not expecting much. Nightcrawler was well done. I thought the story itself was boring. It bugged that they made a superhero movie in which the main villain was an ordinary human. With all the years of great characters to choose from, they chose a soldier who hates mutants. Yay.

Also, characters as two-dimensional as Pyro's are frustrating. I hate this trend in mainstream movies that if a character is going to be evil or whatever they have to broadcast that to you every second of screentime they get. Things are much more interesting when virtuous characters do bad things, or amoral characters do something noble, but we can't have that. It's like, "No! He's evil! If we make him likeable and then he betrays his friends people will be upset!"

(I know. Two-dimensional <---> comic book.)

To me, the series has been the very image of mediocrity, with slightly better special effects.