good CG, awful story

Rating: 6/10 (27 May 2006)

ALthough the special effects were quite mesmerizing, that can be only expected from the third installment of a hugely successful franchise in this day and age. Being a huge fan of the comic I think it was awesome that we could finally see characters like beast, angel and colossus in live action, still i don't think the film highlighted their powers enough. Kelsey grammar was perfect for the role of hank McCoy, but i think the movie took away from the key elements of x-men (multi-cultural characters - couldn't colossus have been Russian instead of American? the cold war is over you know...) and deviated from the comics WAY too much in terms of storyline. the direction was shitty too; i know Hugh Jackman's wolverine wasn't exactly the bad ass he was supposed to be in the last two movies, but he's a real wad in this one, total wuss. this film also lacked some of that zingy humor that was present in the previous two. whatever that was supposed to be funny just came out lame and sounded like it should have been in a Van Damme flick. I think Brett Ratner was an awful choice for director, considering that he owes his career to Jackie Chan and didn't really make anything that great aside from the rush hour movies (which were only good because Jackie's the MAN and tucker is naturally a hilarious). I understand that you can't cram in decades worth of comic book storyline into a feature length movie, but the last two movies definitely did a better job. On the whole: cheesy and lame story, good choice of characters (maybe more interesting baddies would have been nice, the good choices were Juggernaut and shadow cat).