I guess, there's Always hope for Wolverine?

Rating: 1/10 (27 July 2006)

I don't see how anyone who considers themselves a fan of the first two films or the comics could possibly find this film interesting. The writing is trite and god-awful. Every piece of character development that was established in the first two films was borough to an irrelevant and illogical end. McKellen's Magneto has been abandoned all restraint and comes off as a hackneyed and tired. Besides a completely convoluted plot, actors seem to be bored and look as though they were just passing through for a quick paycheck (which, in fact, most of them were). I guess when Pepper Dennis is canceled after its first season, R.R. will wish Mystique wasn't so quickly written off. Anyway, fun surprises involve an ice-man transformation and limited Beast action. I wonder why they didn't stick to the Dark Phoneix story? Maybe Avi Arad could've answered that if they hadn't fired his sorry ass. (Don't worry, he still gets to screw things up as he's contractually attached to a few more Marvel projects!) In closing, the big winner in all of this is Allan Cumming, who wisely chose to do a revival of 3 Penny Opera instead. See you on Broadway, kids.