heartbreaking ...

Rating: 7/10 (1 June 2006)

I don't really what to say. It is the best of the trilogy or is it the worst? For an x-men fan, the movie will grasp your attention from the very beginning of the movie as it takes back at the very beginning of forming the x-men team. But the way the movie has developed was heartbreaking, specially the way the x-men team was shattered down when phoenix killed Scott and professor Xavier.
I think the movie was successful in term of bringing mutant action, more than the previous two films which were concentrated on even driven by the x-men team, the brotherhood and the humans. If you know the mutants from the comic books, the action of this movie will really satisfy your hunger.
However, the movie contained a lot of mutants who didn't have any significant role although they were classified as one of the early x-men in the original comics. Angel for example was totally ignored in the movie, is that just a way to attract people to go and watch the movie? Maybe Ratner knew that he didn't do a good job in term of developing the story so he decided to fill the movie with mutants and use extensive visual effects to show them moving around in the movie without really a good role.
I would give the movie 7/10 just for how the x-men team stood against the brotherhood, it was really organised, and every member in the team got a part of the action. I really enjoyed the fight in the island.
It was sad to see some mutants lose their powers; Mystique and Magneto were powerful together. It's a shame we won't see them again fighting together.