Mutants, mutants, mutants

Went to the midnight showing of the new X-Men movie last night / this morning. As far as movies go, especially the comic book adaptation types, it was pretty okay.
At first I didn’t give it much credit, but it was actually a funny, well choreographed, well filmed, action packed movie. Lots of good fight scenes, really good explosions and action sequences. Logan finally gets his backstory, and a lot of fan favorite mutants who were noticeably missing from the first three movies make appearances.
There are a few portions of the movie that I take issue with on a consistency basis (like Logan’s trademark leather jacket), and there is one particular mutant at the end who was literally photoshopped in, which makes me sad.
Of course Gambit was in it, which makes me happy, and now I’ve found an on screen mutant I’d rank with an awesomeness factor over Wolverine. Liev Shreiber was awesome as Sabretooth (but then he’s awesome in every movie he’s in), and Ryan Reynolds as Wade kept up with Hugh Jackman’s off the cuff humor. Stryker was played perfectly evilly by Danny Huston.
Any comic book fans will probably be overly disappointed, the characters are all over the place, even more so than in the original three X-Men movies. All in all though - a good show!

Favorite dialogue:
Stryker: “You boys were supposed to be killed by firing squad at 1000 hours, how’d that go for you?”
Logan: “It tickled a little”