X-Men Fans Beware

Rating: 1/10 (26 May 2006)

If you really want to go see this movie be utterly prepared for the single most disappointing thing you will ever watch in quite some time. The severe lack of any decent dialog is atrocious, not to mention the gigantic plot holes that are left in the wake of this, this monster that they call a movie. Characters die, others simply left out (apparently forgotten or maybe they just decided to run away?) while others are sporadically introduced with no background story other than a hint of some long past history with another character... oh yes, and who can forget the characters who seem important,when in reality they have 2 lines and then disappear for the rest of the movie leaving one to think that they either died or just got bored out of their minds of the movie itself and decided to go home. The fact that none of the newly introduced characters have any background to speak of is, well, less than satisfactory. Charles Xavier... oh my how you've changed. Stern? Yes. Self-assured? Duh. But angry and judgmental? Never. ***Biggest Let Down: Do not introduce or allude to a character in previous movies you do not intend to include in the next you frigging idiots. What kind of moronic imbecile will allow a character such as the Nightcrawler, who I recall as having a major part in X2, to not appear in X3... not even a freaking cameo. Oh yeah, and in X2 on Stryker's computer screen there is a file called Gambit.... do we see Gambit in X3? No, of course not. And Mystique? Just abandoned by Eric. And, of course, Cyclops, who has 6 lines and then dies after the first 10 minutes of the movie... brilliant guys. Really brilliant. That's not to say that there aren't any good points to this movie. The special effects for The Pheonix are awesome, phenomenal actually. Unfortunately that is pretty much the movie's only redeeming quality. Of course this is just one superhero-loving geeks opinion...