Crash and Burn

Rating: 1/10 (28 May 2006)

I lined up for half an hour to see X-Men: The Last Stand hoping it would be just as good as X2. I was sorely disappointed...
X-3 was possibly the worst movie I've seen in the last couple of years. The effects, of course, were something to be seen. And while in the theater some of the movie was entertaining. But for the most part it was clichéd, dull and completely unfaithful to the last two movies, the characters and the X-Men themselves.
The complaints I have about this movie are too numerous to list, but I'll start with the more important ones. For one, the lack of character development in this movie was deplorable. Four of the main, core, most important characters of all time in the X-Men universe are completely disregarded. Scott Summers, one of the leaders of the X-Men is killed off in the first ten minutes. Professor X was killed off subsequently, by Jean Grey, which is implausible and ridiculous considering their relationship. As well, Rogue, yet another core X-Men has a total of five lines, and then the director takes away her power! DEPLORABLE! As well, WHAT HAPPENED TO NIGHTCRAWLER??? A great character was lost, written out of the script because the writers couldn't be bothered to include him.
And those are just my character complaints! My story complaints are much deeper. None of the stories were resolved at all! What happened to the blooming romance between Kitty and Bobby? Everything dissolves when Rogue comes back without her powers - which, in itself, is a travesty. As well, Magneto and Mystique (one of the most important characters in all the many years the comics have run) lose their powers.
The end of the movie, however, was the most disappointing, and, if I dare say it, ridiculous bits of writing I have ever seen in the cinema. Suddenly everything is good and right. There is no resolution, nothing gets fixed, and yet all of a sudden, everything is bright and cheery; chess in the park, birds in the sky, bright sunlight... The writers are toying with the intellects of everyone in the theater.
I beg of everyone who has not yet seen this movie to avoid it! Please don't buy into the dumbing down of the cinema-going public! We deserve better than this - for lack of a more appropriate or more educated way of saying it - PIECE OF *&#%!!! DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY!