It's not the worst movie I've ever seen - not that it deserves that recognition, anyway...

Rating: 2/10 (2 June 2006)

I don't like it when I and my friends exit the cinema and someone starts to explain how would he have made it, especially when they are based upon licensed intellectual property such as comics or video games.
Still, I have to admit it: upon exiting the cinema, I was actually thinking how would I make 'X-Men 3: The Last Stand' if I were calling the shots. It's not the worst movie I've ever seen - not that it deserves that recognition, anyway. I couldn't possibly see it trying to compete against such classics as 'School Killer' or 'Cradle of Fear'. But it does sadly break the mold, for all the wrong reasons.
We have to admit it - though we have recently seen a few decent attempts to convert the essence of the original licensed material, 'Spider-Man', 'Sin City', 'X-Men', 'X-Men 2: United' or 'V for Vendetta' (despite what Allan Moore may have to say) aren't, alas, the average fare. Just a too lucky and high frequency of good deliveries, that just makes me wonder whether another age of half-hearted cash-ins may be coming.
I want to make it clear - I'm a huge X-Men fan, and though I have switched American comics for Japanese mostly, I really loved how 'X-Men ' and 'X-Men 2: United' dealt with the original comic characters. This isn't the case with 'X-Men 3', but I won't dwell on how this movie is a huge disservice to fans of the comic books - I don't want to post a 2MB text file containing a thesis on how to treat intellectual property in a proper manner.
Instead, I will only say what I really find to be worst about 'X-Men 3'. It's boring, poorly directed, and one in every three dialog lines feels cliché, corny and textbook-inspired. 'X-Men 3' is so bad that there's no real use for it, other than using it to, instead of making a negative critic on itself, making a positive critic on some other movie that deserves it far better. Like, for example:
"I have not seen the 'Transformers' movie yet. But good news to all 'Transformers' fans: no matter how bad it is/will be, it can't be worse than 'X-Men 3'."