Spoof

Rating: 2/10 (30 May 2006)

X3 is possibly the most disappointing film since Matrix Reloaded. The movie is high on action, but low on plot/character development. The first 90 minutes feel cheap, cheesy, and quickly thrown together, and have some genuinely bad visual effects. There are also several continuity issues that terribly obvious. The final battle between mutants is obviously the only part that was given much effort, and it proves to be the film's only highlight. The effects in this part are top-notch and the action is great, but this serves mostly to remind of how cheap they were for the rest of the movie. Other than the final battle, X3 feels almost like a spoof of the previous two films. This film had the potential to be great... Brett Ratner settled for barely mediocre.