Nice attempt.. but no

Rating: 6/10 (13 December 2006)

I was ready and waiting to see how "amazing" X3 was supposed to be. If only they had kept Bryan Singer on board. While it was a nice attempt by Brett Ratner I don't think he has the experience or creative imagination to direct X3 or any X-Men movie for that matter. For me there was just nothing there, the movie didn't surprise me or live up to it's expectations. If you read Bryan Singer's ideas that he had planned for X3 you would probably have been like me, excited, anxious and pumped.
Where were half of the characters? Rogue being one of the main characters in the first two X-men movies just disappeared completely! Jean Grey/Phoenix was practically a mime the entire movie. I ached for the scenes where we could actually see some emotion in both Jean and the Phoenix. And what was up with Cyclops? Was Fox angry because he was in Superman and decided to kill him off within the first 10 minutes of X3? Halle Berry only agreed to come back on board if she got more money, more screen time and more 'character development' (which I saw none of). Storm was just annoying and seemed to be shoved in every scene available. There are more characters I could comment on but that would take a long time.
If there is an X4 I will be ready to erase X3 from my mind and hopefully the terrible directing of Brett Ratner. All I have to say is BRING BRYAN SINGER BACK!