no character development, move was short, cheesy music

Rating: 6/10 (1 June 2006)

Like many other people, I have come to the conclusion that this final installment of X-Men was a hack job. The X-Men comics provide a rich environment of character development and thick, entertaining plot lines, any of which would have sparked sufficient interest in fans and moviegoers alike. While the original director "adapted" to those comics to create a cohesive plot that would properly fit in the time span of a movie, this new film seems to have taken on more than it could handle. It displays many of the lovable characters fans love, but there is no character development, no introductions, and no relevance or significance to what these characters actually mean to the story; to the "X-men saga" itself. If the X-Men franchise is a golden egg of cash crop to the production company, why butcher the story and limit the movie as a "trilogy". And if the movie MUST be a trilogy, why butcher the movie instead of just further developing and introducing characters and leaving the story open like just another comic episode. And if you did want to chew on that many characters in one movie, with a plot as big as this one was, why not make the movie longer? It never seemed to be a problem for Peter Jackson( lord of the rings, king Kong). No disrespect to the director of this X-men movie(he's an action director not a screenwriter/drama director), but much disrespect given to the production company for allowing this botch up to exist. For allowing the script to sh*t all over the story and characters alike. Rogue cant fly, shes weak, shes a genuine crybaby. Nightcrawler "poof"ed out of this movie altogether. People defend the time line as to why rogue has no powers yet other than the absorption technique, as to why there is no gambit or jubilation lee or banshee yet(shes apparently a student in one scene being taught by Xavier), as to why archangel hasn't lost his original wings and just sort of flaps around the movie from time without any significance to the plot or ever fighting (much like the squirrel in ice age.)Why psylocke is apparently a bad guy...But if this is the case, and "these things just haven't happened yet",don't just make up your own ending by killing off all the main characters (cyclops,Xavier,jean Grey)to fit into the confines of a trilogy. I like that kitty is in the movie, I like Juggernaut in the movie too. But come on. Pick a plot, pick a few characters, and make it work. Juggernut vs wolverine and night-crawler. Juggernut vs colossus. Both worked well in the comics. But Juggernut just running after kitty until slamming into a wall and knocking himself out? That "action" scene lasted all of a solid minute. ew. Leave the characters out if you're not going to expand on them or make them work with the over-all story.
And seriously, if you're stuck making a "trilogy" and forced into killing off characters and screwing up the storyline this much to get closure, don't add a goofy scene at the end leading an audience to think that a sequel may come with the "cure" not being a permanent fixture/effect on those it has been administered to. Or, after credits, having a sequence leading one to wonder if Charles Xavier is still alive. That be the case, perhaps cyclops and jean are alive too? Then what? So no one died and no one lost their powers, absolutely nothing happened all movie long and you couldn't even develop the story started in the previous two movies further for the next installment? *shakes fists in air*