Great movie

Rating: 9/10 (31 October 2006)

Not many movies that are based on comics or novels have done a decent job to compliment the story.
The X-men series, I will give it's due credit for it being a PG movie and still being able to good.
I don't know for sure but I believe that X-Men 3 is the last installment of this series but it went out with a bang, kind of.
This time around, there's this mutant cure which Rogue is decided on taking, Cyclops is drowning in depression and Storm is sexy as ever. As many probably know, Jean Grae returns as 'The Phoenix' (her dark half) who nearly destroys everything and everybody and Dear ol' Prof. X paid the price for caring with his own life. Needless to say that since this movie is supposedly the last, there's a lot of twists and turns, bringing in new characters and deleting old characters. I say delete since it is a CGI movie, and a PG movie. (Oh the site of blood in one of these is too ghastly for our already over sexed, drugged and violent American youths-Jesus what would happen?)
My problem with the movie is the character's actions or reactions within the story which is suspected of being done to close off the franchise, I mean to keep paying Hugh and Halle...well. Anyway, my problem with the story is concerning how Jean Grae physically survived from the water crashing down her from X-2 by using some sort of telepathic sphere to protect her body-If this was the case then what's with the all the drama-I mean shouldn't that be listed in her resume as well? Second, I don't know about you but to me, Jean's home looked a lot like Pyro's home in X-2 and I know that isn't a typical NY neighborhood. Third, at the end when Jean/Phoenix goes into flip mode, Magneto (already a civilian now) realizes that he had probably made a mistake by saying, "my god, what have I done" before getting running with everybody else. The reason being is because he (Magneto) should be fully aware of Jean's capabilities and he was for the most part. The big difference between him and his friend Prof. X was that X-cared, he was the humanist, where's Magneto didn't care, he was to destroy the humans at all cost due to his unswerving belief that they would destroy the mutants and by most ways, he was right. So that goes to say, why at the very end he get's scared at a mensing mutant letting off some fireworks? Wouldn't he be more older, experienced and just cool for that? Fourth, the mutant war: I would imagine that the whole fight would begin on Alcatraz but end there, come on. And Magneto's army is such a small army compared to the other stories, I did have a problem with that.
But the good side to the movie is: 1. The Beast-I think the FX team did a great job with making him fleshed out along with his movements. 2. The Latina bad girl with the bad guy mutant sigil tatted on her taters.
Over all it's not bad for a movie transferred from a Comic book franchise in fact, this series is the best done for it, and I'll leave it at that.
And off that note, I will say that although X-Men is my favorite story from Marvel (thanks to the cartoon from FOX years ago), I am not all deep into it like that and if you're one of those people (like a Trekkie) then prepare to be disappointed, feeling like you'd have to settle for less-it is what it is.