Disappointing

Rating: 1/10 (26 May 2006)

I agree with "crouching_tiger_eating_popcorn's" review. I was sorely disappointed with X3. I did read the comics back in the day, and very much enjoyed the first two movies. The makers of this movie (producers, writers, and director) took a great franchise and did a half-assed job with what should have been a great movie. They replaced the quite moments of the first two movies, which really contributed to their feel, with needless and poorly executed action-oriented snippets. They used poorly written and hokey expository dialog or monologues inappropriately. I had no emotional attachment what-so-ever with any of the characters. I couldn't care less if any one of them survived some fight. That emotional attachment is what set the first two movies apart and above a typical formulaic action-flick. They wrote in an idiotic speech before a big fight scene, and that fight scene was ridiculous. Whenever you have a battle with one group standing in a line facing off against another group, which you can see in some previews and commercials, you have a bunch of lazy film makers (aside from Braveheart, of course). Basically, they took some good concepts and executed them poorly. I compare X3 with the second and third Matrix movies and Star Wars episodes 1 through 3. Hardley good company to keep. When the first X-Men movie came out, I was afraid that it would follow the low-quality of most other comic book flicks. I was surprised by the high-quality of it and X2. However, X3 realized my initial fear. I, also, will pretend it was never made.