Very disappointed in X3

Rating: 4/10 (29 May 2006)

I loved the first 2 movies, but this one just doesn't do it for me. There is something about the production that makes the movie seem like it was rushed and made on small studio stages.
The wood where the mutants are hiding seems like being a park and the final battle on Alcatraz seems like its going on behind a supermarket mall.
There are so many things that doesn't work in the movie. So many cool mutants from the first movies are either not in this on or just dead.
After Mystigue is turned in to a human you only see here for like a brief movement and its a shame to put an end to such a cool villain.
The story about Jean Grey is stupid and not very interesting. Many of the new mutants are like taken out of music video and are just badly played.
Pyro is so annoying and he comes of not as a cool villain, but as a stupid teenager with a sexual problem. When he finally gets to fight iceman its a very dull scene where they shoot a fire beam and a ice beam at each other, then there is a struggle between the two beams where it shifts from side to side where ofcause Iceman comes out strongest. Wow we have never seen that before. I want to see them do some serious stuff. Its a clash of 2 elements that are so different and that it should end in some seriously stunning action scenes.
There are many new mutants and a lot i have looked forward to, but most of them don't work. The problem with all the new mutants is, that they don't give anything to the movie and the character development gone. Its a sad turn from the first 2 movies.
I didn't have high hopes about this movie after reading the first reviews, but i did look forward to at least seeing Wolverine kicking serious a.. , but the cool fights like against mystique or Deathstrike from the first movies are not there, only a uninteresting scene in the woods vs. some silly mutants (the one growing and then throwing spikes/horns) looks truly stupid as he runs around chasing Wolverine in the woods. Take notice the next time you see the movie. It just doesn't work.
If this movie will be the last, then its a sad and bad way to end what could have been one of the best super heroes movies ever made.
But with a director like Brett Ratner i am not surprised the movie turned out so bad.