way to ruin a franchise. Thanks.

Rating: 2/10 (26 May 2006)

Really can't believe Stan Lee let them make this. No wonder Singer left. Whats the point of building characters to just end a trilogy like this? I'm very disappointed especially since its not as if there isn't a large amount of storyline already created to draw from. With the ending of the 2nd movie, for some reason I really thought they were going to be doing these right. This movie ruined it for me, and I'm sure other fans who grew up with these comics will agree. As a movie, its not bad. Its entertaining, and its not badly done by any means. In fact, if you forget who these guys are, its fun.
With that said, it should have been called "people who look like the xmen: The Last Stand" because there was nothing character wise that had to do with them in this movie. I gave it a 2 star instead of a 1 because Beast had some good scenes.
Another thing, could FOX have cheeped out anymore with some of the effects? Colossus looked worse than the 2nd movie and could have been created in the early 90's and brought back into this movie. He looks horrible, like some half-wit knock off studio at the last min. put him in. They didn't bother building him as a character or Angle at all.
As far as the missing Nightcrawler...they could have put Efren Ramirez, Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite, in some makeup and called it a day instead of just ignoring he ever existed. All you needed was a small Spanish guy with an accent.
Anyway, I'm pretty easy on movies but when you ruin something with decades of lore behind it, that's pretty inexcusable. I haven't read an xmen book in years, but I do remember them.
I wish they were coming out with X-Men 3:The Do-Over next year and just pretend this didn't exist.