Don't Get Your Hopes Up

Rating: 4/10 (4 November 2006)

Pretty shoddy movie... I mean, compared to most other movies, it's golden. Decent script, great actors, the whole works. But because it's a sequel it MUST be judged based on the two X-Men movies that came before it, and sadly, it just doesn't hold water. It's 80% the director's fault. At one point, he had literally crammed over 100 GENERIC mutants onto the screen. I mean, what's the point? It's not a contest to see how many cameos you can pull off in the allotted time. Give these people some back-story! Hell, give them some POWERS. And X3 definitely had the most hackneyed one-liners in it... I mean, it's sad that cliché make-you-sigh one-liners is pretty much the norm for mainstream comic-book movies (with Batman Begins as a possible exception to that rule), but they weren't even trying to hold back...
It's definitely an interesting story, it definitely has an amazing cast, and it's definitely worth seeing. I'm judging it harshly because I had come to expect near-flawlessness from the first two X-Men movies--stories that kept me on the edge of my seat, engaging dialogue, etc... Instead what I got was a half-baked "well, let's finish cashing in on this cash-cow"-style movie, which was quite frustrating.
So, rent it... but don't get your hopes up.