Brett Ratner not to blame

Rating: 6/10 (22 June 2006)

This film is by overall the weakest of the three. It wasn't that good, but out of all this, most people say it's because of Brett Ratner's poor director abilities. No, I do not blame him, and I don't find him and a bad director either--Red Dragon was still interesting. He made that movie much better than the book.
But it wasn't his fault this movie was bad. The way many of the special effects shots were done, I was rather impressed. Also, with how the X men series was going to be done with just 3 movies rather than five, can we really blame Brett? Bryan Synger did a much better job with the first two movies, but he didn't solve much of the plot, and he left open too many damn plot holes that weren't fixable in this movie. Also, with all of the stuff Brett had to rap up and how he managed to do that much in the movie was well done in some areas.
OK, on with the movie. The plot here is that now the humans have a type of antigen that can turn mutants back into people. At the same time Jean comes back as the Phoenix and is now uber evil. Also, Rogue wants to become human again so her and Iceman can get it on. Oh wait, there's more, there's this kid whose able to take away peoples powers that Magneto is bent on destroying. Is there more subplots to throw at us? You betcha'! At the beginning of the movie there is Angel who wants to become a human and then decides not to, in fact it was a subplot so lame, so useless, I wish it weren't there or maybe it could have had more of a point. I mean the whole addition of him was done so he could do some dramatic rescue in the end--yeah--and that was all. Wait! More subplots! Let's not forget that Magneto wants to start a revolution. Oh the agony, Beast is trying to support the antigen usage. Storm is now in charge of the X Men--WTF?! Wow, it's a wide ranging movie! I think this could have been better if we had a few more X men movies. The acting is good, I give some of it that. Hugh Jackman did nice on his reprise role as Wolverine. Halle Berry got on my nerves as Storm in this movie. Why you ask? Storm didn't do much in the first X men film. She barely had anything to do with the second, she a useless character, uninteresting, and now in this she's practically the main character. At least Brett kept her in, but why make her the leader? I was rather annoyed by this entry. Throughout the whole movie I was waiting for the traditional Wolverine versus bad ass and cool mutant fight... I won't say much there, but we're you as angry at this as me? Superman Returns better be good. If that's a piece of crap I will be fuggin' angry that Bryan left X3 to direct a crap ball. But don't really take my opinion on this movie, see it yourself. You might like it... Oh, and here's a salute to Fox--thanks for f*cking up one of the best mutant franchises form Marvel.
6/10