Dump Halle Barry Already

Rating: 6/10 (4 June 2006)

I was a fan of the DC universe, and my exposure to X-Men was limited to whatever issues my friends had. Given that, I do not know how central Storm is to the X-Men oeuvre, but for the movies, her prime has long passed. Xavier was alright, but I am hoping that with his death and kicking Storm upstairs as headmistress will allow any further movies to breath without the oppressive star power of the actors.
As for the X3 story, with her overwhelming power why did Magneto hold back Jean for the final attack? True, unleashing her earlier would have cut out 5 to 7 minutes of the battle scene, but since that time was devoted to killing off unnamed mutants anyway, the main characters could have had a more spectacular and, more importantly, an actual tactical clash.
Although this film has some major flaws, at least the producers left the field open for the next film to rethink the X-Men as a movie vehicle. With Ian McKellan playing such a strong Magneto, the basis is here for three more strong movies, if not more, but the good guys need to be reworked from the bottom up without consideration for actors' egos.