Third times the charm they say? Best to have left it at I and II

Rating: 3/10 (27 May 2006)

With X-men being marvel's first major comic blockbuster I'm sure they felt invincible with the release of this highly anticipated film. The franchise was great and we all know that and much like The Juggernaut nothing could get in its way. Unfortunately the harsh reality of the matter is X3 failed to deliver in so many different ways.
I'm not here to come and bash the movie because I am absolutely LOVE X-men. I grew up with the comics and I watched the shows. Despite the storyline changes along the years this has to be the worst of them all hands down.
How so you say? strap on your seat belt because I'm about to take you for a ride.
((SPOILERS))
-From the get go the story really never elaborates itself about what is happening. We get bits and pieces from Xavier about what's going on but by the time the story begins to warm up they kill off Xavier. To top that they kill off Cyclops in the first 10 minutes of the film. It seemed as if the none of the writers had time to pick up comic book. How do you kill off 2 of the original cast members of X-men and not even give it a second thought?
-The main story in itself was flawed. Mutation was a change in the persons DNA, yet they have a supposed "cure"? You can cure something that is ailing like a disease or a tumor but you can't if its imprinted in the person's DNA. For example babies who are born with mothers that do drugs while in term are born with withdrawals and unfortunately they have to deal with that for the rest of their lives. They can't simply go out and ask their DNA to be changed! Same can be applied to mutation, you can't CURE mutation in a person genes because it IS their genes. You can't change the DNA without the changing the person.
-Majority of the dialog was straight forward but the witty and quirky remarks were somewhat absent at times. Believe me there were those moments that brought the house down (those who have seen the juggernaut know exactly what I'm talking about ) but it just didn't have the style charisma of X-men and X2. It looks like X-men but it doesn't FEEL like X-men and die hard fans will know exactly what I mean. With this movie being the "LAST STAND" and all you would assume that Ratner would introduced some of the more powerful mutants but none of them even show! I guess we'll have to settle for "The Flea"
Halle Barry herself said she would not sign on for X3 if Storm didn't have a more dynamic role in the movies. Her character does in the comic so I would assume with X3 they would finally be able to show some of storm's potential as a leader. Unfortunately she does pretty same thing in the other movies, change the weather and shock a couple of people. Unfortunately Storm is still portrayed as weak character. Though perhaps SLIGHTLY more stronger than the previous films but still weak none the less. In the comics Storm was almost considered godly, but this storm pales in comparison to her counter part.
overall the movie is definitely watchable and enjoyable to certain extent but personally compared to the previous films it was a big let down and I hope they bring back Bryan Singer if marvel decided to release and X4. In a nutshell there wasn't enough story to prove that this was supposed to be "THE LAST STAND" or even close to it. Don't even get me started on the continuity errors. Only thing I truly enjoyed about this movie was the way they brought in the role of Juggernaut, despite him not even being a mutant in the first place.
PS stay for an extra scene after the credits
till next time, game over for now.