I smell a rat.

Rating: 2/10 (26 May 2006)

I don't think I ever fully appreciated Bryan Singer until now. I thought that he could have done a better job on the first two films. Now I see how great he really was. He had hte ability to balance a bunch of different characters and still make us feel them, whereas Brett Ratner has a billion mutants and not a single one who has a character. Even the already-established characters like Storm, Wolverine, and sundry fade into the periphery. The plot is convoluded, the characters completely changed and (SPOILERS!!!) they kill characters who should not have died. I'm sorry, but I thought that Scott deserved better than to die in the first 15 minutes of film, and it bothers me that Xavier followed soon after and I just CANNOT believe that Wolverine A) could and B) would kill Jean Grey, there's no way the Phoenix would let him. I'm rambling, I know, and this just scratches to surface of what was wrong with the film. But damn, it was so disappointing. I waited so long for this movie...