Not as good as X2 but better than X-Men

Rating: Null/10 (26 May 2006)

This movie was great. I was very excited to see the next X-Men film and was thrilled that most of the same cast had returned. I'm not a huge fan, but I was aware of the X-Men franchise since I was little. While I never read any of the comics, I watched the cartoons.
Okay, so we have the third installment. I was a bit reluctantly for its success because Bryan Singer had left the project as director thus Brett Ratner took the seat.
I repeat, the film was great and it was dark with some humor in the right places. The story was about the mutant cure and how they cope with it while Magneto made his evil army. I was excited that there was going to be a handful of new mutants. The Juggernaut was cool, he needed more screen time. For this film, I expected it to begin with the usual narrative by Patrick Stewart, but this one proved different.
Some of the flaws I found were the screen time of Mystique. As always, she proved to have an awesome role, but this time she was captured! And sadly, the minute she is let free, she no longer is needed due to the "mutant cure". Cyclops and the Professor also depart in this film, literally, they die. I found it sort of ridiculous to kill off Prof. X considering he is a major character. And Cyclops, he didn't have much screen time in this, or X2. So I felt that he was ripped off again.
The music is another thing. Not too many people care for the background music, but this one wasn't as catchy as the previous two films score.
And finally, there is the cure. Seeing the trailers, I expected there to be some kind of flaw or consequential symptom to it, but it turned out the cure actually worked. Oh, and Nightcrawler, I wish he could've returned in the film.
Overrall, the film was darker, had more mutants, in my opinion more humor, and although it felt rushed, I still enjoyed it.