What were they thinking?

Rating: 1/10 (27 May 2006)

!Warning! many scenes are talked about in my comments that could be considered spoilers, and reveal plot lines and spoil this already bad movie.
This movie sucked so hard, on so many levels I think I need therapy. Let's start with continuity. In the last fight sequence on Alcatraz Island How did it turn from complete daylight when magneto moved the bridge to the island to complete darkness when they attack the soldiers on the island? Please tell me that outside of Phoenix killing off all the characters we love, that she did something more than just stand there? This movie was an insult to the first two. Every character that was established as a foundation, and had meaning was pretty easily done away with and disrespected. Mystic who is the backbone of Magnetos group lost her mutant ability and was cut off? Scott's emotional outburst and death just disrespected his character, and he went out with no glory, it took two movies to establish Rogue as someone who was learning to work through her challenges with her powers, but I guess her progress didn't matter any more.
Outside of Beast corny witty lines during fight sequence that tried too hard to be reminiscent to that Frazier kind of humor, and a whole back-story on angel who doesn't really do anything except save his father, they really couldn't get anything right. And at what point did Logan really start to care? By the way was Nightcrawler too busy praying in churches to help?
When Magneto attacks the island did the X men really have a plan? And how could 6 X men stop everyone else? After Magneto saw mystic get shot with one of those darts that turned her human, don't you think he would have made any precautions to protect himself from the darts since he knows what kind of weapons they have? They tried so hard to establish all these powerful mutants, yet in the end did anyone really do anything? All these interesting and powerful mutants that convoluted the story just died, what a distraction, what a waste.
Here is the real problem outside of the writing and directing; after Professor X is killed do you really care what happens? Again the movie is called X-MEN not Logan's men. It was completely anticlimactic killing off the heart of the movie, and they can try to appease us at the end of the movie that Professor X is still alive, but for me, 2 little 2 late.