empty, lifeless and just so so disappointing

Rating: 2/10 (30 May 2006)

I'm not a comic book fan, and have only a basic understanding of the x-men mythology and universe. But, I was so disappointed by this film I really enjoyed the first two, with X2 being, in my opinion slightly better than the first - an unusual occurrence for a sequel! I'd heard bad reviews, so I wasn't expecting much but was prepared, and hoping to be surprised. I was, but only in that reviews were too kind.
The film felt empty, it's basically a wolverine film (again), but now with Storm as a sidekick. But that's it. All the characters that should have been here were missing or killed: Xavier - who they'd turned from the "father figure" he should be into a manipulating fool and then they kill him... Hello, I don't know much, but I know that Xavier is THE linchpin of the whole x-men genre. It's primarily his battle with his friend and nemesis Magneto that makes the stories so compelling.
Cyclops, poor Scott Marsden, not only getting another minor role in the X-men franchise, but virtually less than a cameo before he's killed(badly) Mystique: just no, one of the very few characters that you want to see more of and she's gone.
Rogue. again, underused, under developed and removed.
Beast/ Hank McCoy (never referred to as beast) - well played by Kelsey Grammar, but just again, under developed and under-used.
jean Grey... Just under-developed (why was she doing the things she did and why did she die!) The x-men are supposed to be team, but in this film they're anything but.
Angel, Colossus, Juggernaut etc... you saw them, you just didn't to actually meet any of them! Terrible ending too Basic story premise, is superb. again, under-developed.
After 3 films we should have known much more about these characters, their background and they should be richer, enabling us to identify more with them, instead we know nothing more about any of them than we did before.
Just terrible, truly awful and so so very disappointing to have such a wealth of acting talent there on screen, some there so briefly, others there a lot just made to say that terrible dialogue and act in such a rubbish movie.
I left the film being upset and angry they'd killed off all the major characters but never once being moved by the action on screen. No tension, no passion, no charm, no humour, no wit, No life. nothing.