They did everything wrong they could.

Rating: 4/10 (1 June 2006)

"They did everything wrong they could", is really the only thing to say about the film.
All old characters have been reduced. No new character is really build up. No relationship between characters is drawn in a clear way. Most of the dialogs are trashy. A consistent story is not told, no climax produced, it is just a number of moments that somehow belong together without forming a whole. Some of the powers you can see do not seem very clear, their strength looks more like being a matter of chance than of constance. The film is much less artful than the films before. The camera is used nicely on some shots but misses the focus and perspectives that make the difference between art and craft. Some nice graphical tricks to render the mutant powers are also there, but they are also not focused and so not able to impress the viewer as they could in X1 and X2.
Dissatisfaction is left after leaving the film. We were three in the film and after we had left we all said the same. Knowing the original comic or not, we all felt that the story had been killed
The only thing you shouldn't do, even dissatisfied, is to leave the film before the end. And when I say end, I mean end.