Mediocrity, Hurrah!

Rating: 4/10 (4 September 2006)

This was two (or three) excellent Bryan Singer movies condensed into one aggravatingly disappointing Brett Ratner movie. It's like a wonderful steak, salad, and piece of pie mashed together and then nuked. Too many characters, too many story lines, too little time, too little talent behind the camera and holding the pen. They added in half a dozen new characters, and developed none of them. There was enough material here for 2-4 movies, and instead they make one movie that is bursting with story lines and characters, yet devoid of emotion or inspiration. I paid full price to see X1 and X2 in the theater, and bought both on DVD, and I got my money's worth. I paid half price to see X-Men: The Last Stand in a cheap theater, I will never buy it on DVD, and I feel I paid too much. Congrats, Fox, on losing the $20 I would have spent on the DVD had this been a good movie. I know this movie could have been better, which is why it makes me so mad that it wasn't.