What the?!?!

Rating: 2/10 (27 May 2006)

Like many of you, I grew up on X-men: x-men comics, x-men animated series, etc... and like many of you, so incredibly disappointed, saddened, and just plain angry. This movie was far from being the truth when it came to the comics and the animated series! Did the writers think that there would be some actual x-men fans going to see this movie? After the first two installments of X-men I was so excited for this one! Sure, the other two were a bit off but they were still wonderful and this, well... this was just plain ridiculous! Xavier dies? Xavier dies?! Phoenix dies...Cyclops dies... 1/3 of the main characters that made X-men as great as it was died, the other 1/3 of the X-men characters lost their powers (Rogue, Magneto, Mystique....) and who is left? Wolverine, Storm, and Iceman (who had a very small role). Coincidentally, 2 out of the 3 are the "stars" of this film.
By the way, am I the only one or did I NOT see flames accompanying Phoenix? When she got in her rage her face looked more like a zombie than that of this magnificent "goddess". Also, Juggernaut was NOT a mutant yet when he went near the "leech" he mysteriously lost his strength and bumped his head against the wall. Because he is not a mutant, he should have been able to break through! How about Moriah? They did not even explain who she was! Pretty much, this film went spiraling downhill once they killed off Xavier. Again: did any of the writers or director give a crap about the actual fans? Oh and, whatever happened to Gambit? Why wasn't he ever introduced?!
I think one of thehigh points of this film was The Beast played by Kelsey Grammar. He was wonderful! The effects were wonderful.
My boyfriend's family and I stayed until the very end of the film completely shocked and listing all it's flaws and yet, there were three signs of hope: 1) When Magneto was in the park by himself with the chess he was able to slightly move the chess piece (couldn't help but recall how in the beginning of the movie it was said that the "cure" is only temporary) and 2) when Xavier was giving a lecture to his students he put on a video of Moriah with an unconscious man and they were questioning whether or not it was possible for a conscious mind to be placed in an unconscious body and right at the end there is a scene with Moriah in the same room and the man says "Hello Moriah" and she says "Charles?" and lastly 3) The film never really showed if Cyclops died, they just implied it.
I am hoping and praying that this is really not "The Last Stand". They completely butchered the actual "X-Men" stories. Seeing that the film ended so "openly" I am hoping they bring it back (with a better director and writing crew of course) and they give actual justice to X-Men. This was such an incredible disappoint being that I have been a fan for so long. This really cannot and should not be the end.