X-men 3: the last stand ..... in the comic-shop for a good adaptation...

Rating: 1/10 (10 June 2006)

X-men is a comics book, so the visual is essential to the "brand".
I felt it in X1 (perfect), not in X2 (a failure for me), and X3 is in the middle: some respectful & worthy moments (a sentinel in a Terminator beginning, added characters like Colossus, Shadowcat, the eternal Wolverine, the Golden Gate) but the list falls short with a lot of flat sequences: the house battle, the forest hiding, the final battle... Well, any talented artist could have done it better in a book!!! The story supports the same vision: some interesting plots: the underlying political & discrimination thematic, the no-mutation mutant, but we find also some silly stories: the lake with Cyclops and the stupid killing of Phoenix... Why wolverine doesn't use the anti-mutation serum on her in the same way he did on Magneto a few minutes before? In conclusion, give the script to the original authors, give the camera to the artists, and goddammit give us a real X-men! Sin city is a success, because the easy formula has been used: Just take a existent story & film each panel with dedication.... No more interpretation or originality by people who aren't fans....