Couldn't Believe This

Rating: 3/10 (4 October 2006)

I couldn't believe this movie. they killed off the professor and cyclops within the first twenty minutes and it didn't get any better from there.
most of the characters in the movie were pushed aside in order to make room for wolverine's constant, useless rampages including making Rogue disappear for most of the second half of the movie.
the heroes and villains were also sorely mishandled as they make magneto seem less and less like a bad guy and strip professor x's good guy status by having him admit to forcing his will on jean as a child without control over her powers. jean was also a problem as they offered no explanation of why she is choosing the side that she does, making her into little more than a menacing presence supporting magneto, offering none of her own opinions or acting on her own, for the majority of the movie. another major character that was mishandled was mystique by giving her all of ten minutes on the camera in the movie and totally stripping her of her powers.
this movie had great potential but, the story went in a bad direction and they gave four of the characters that had been painstakingly built up over the previous two movies meaningless parts and two of them get little more to their credit than being ripped apart by jean grey, scott for no reason at all. it is sad to see that the trilogy that had so much promise be closed by a movie this bad.