Childhood Dreams Completely Obliterated (Rant-Review)

Rating: 1/10 (3 June 2006)

I can't stress how terrible this movie is... so taking it from a non-comic fan, or at least trying to, here we go.
OK, so the director must have sat back and said, "how many different ways can we destroy a character?" because let me tell you, all character development in the first and second films were tossed out the window when the script was written for this rubble.
Xavier's 'character' displayed traits that are on a polar opposite of the character in the first two films (further regarded as ITF2F). Since when did he ever show fear or anger? He blames Wolverine for freeing Jean, and guilt trips her over Cyclopse. And since when did psychic powers and lust, desire, etc. run hand-in-hand?
Cyclopse had about 10 minutes of screen life.
Jean - poor Famke Janssen's character , who did a terrific performance portraying Marvel Girl ITF2F, after the roughly 100 minutes of my childhood destroyed, she ate (or... something) her husband, killed Xavier, teased Magneto's powers, then sat back, while she's referred to blatantly as a weapon, and did nothing. And since when did desire lead to evil? Her endless powers could have been used a bit more creatively.
Magneto shows an acute sense of metal, AND lack-of, ITF2F. He can feel Wolverine out of a crowd of hundreds without batting an eye, yet he can't sense that a bunch of loaded guns lack any metal! During the 'last stand,' Colossus and Wolverine attack him, while he's watching. They were both covered in metal, and he waits to act until almost gutted by Wolverine.
Rogue, always showed a bit of resentment for her powers. It's not too far-fetched to see her give them up willingly, but it still sucks, and throws another main character out the window.
Storm - excuse me, Halle Berry - should have stayed a background character. Bluntly put, her acting sucked. She overacted in just about every scene. And could her threat to leave the film be any more apparent? Storm is third in line, and somehow in 15 movie-minutes, she's running the entire Mansion/X-Men. Plus, the final battle, she shoots lightning from her hands. The problem; Storm controls the weather; she doesn't projectile-vomit from it from her body! She's as sensitive to physics as anyone else.
Wolverine - ITF2F, and as much as he could in the last film, Hugh Jackman has shown us all a Wolverine that not many could fault. Of course, like all characters in this crud, he was given a batch of sour lines and tamed down away from his wild nature. And we all (18+) could have hoped for a better (or worse) rating and maybe a little more 'fighting' with Jean in the subbasement... or was that just me?
What was with the Angel scene? Was anyone else bothered by how flashy and overdone it was? The terrible lighting effect was a little out of place, since all he did was run away. The effect was almost holy.
Now, I will admit the special effects were pretty cool. Of course, in American culture, a movie lacking in this category is instantly put on the Indie shelf.
The US government is flakier in this movie than in real life, and I didn't think that possible. Not to mention, the President completely ignores a US Gov't worker being strangled. 'We don't hate mutants! This FDA-approved vaccine is not government funded!' Oh, wait, the last battle is over, so everyone's at peace, because it's over after One 10 Minute Battle, right?
The biggest let-down in this film is the lack-of Phoenix. Given, the movies don't follow the comics accurately, but the end of the second movie did foreshadow fire in the lake. Come on... Give us the Phoenix, not some lusty, beady-eyed, dark witch from some forgotten fantasy flick.
I'm not going to even bother spilling out the ways in which this movie screwed up the characters via the comics. Except for... How can you Kill Xavier, as well as Jean and Cyclopse? And taking away Magneto's powers? Obviously, this was where they wanted the movies to end.
TF2F don't accurately portray the comics, but I absolutely loved the direction they took with the X-Men. Dare I say they 'Modernized' the X-Men? More were brought into the X-Men world for it, but the last movie ruined the works of TF2F
The part where Magneto moves the chess piece a bit and the scene after the credits have to be there to keep people happy. A fourth one of this caliber can't truly be produced, can it?