Ratner Strikes Again

Rating: 2/10 (25 May 2006)

I'm sorry to say that Brett Ratner has done for the X-Men franchise what Joel Schumacher did for Batman. You can have great production values, special effects, sound, and a whole bunch of excellent actors; but without at least a half decent script, it just adds up to a nice looking noisy commercial for action figures. The basic story of X-Men 3 could easily have made for a much better film. All the key elements were there but I suspect they were left as bullet points on the production notes rather than developed into a script. The characters we once loved in Singer's films now just come across as two dimensional puppets. There's lots of action and CGI etc, but if I don't care about the characters I'm hardly going to be on the edge of my seat worrying about who makes it to the end credits.
Won't someone give (the sadly under used and underrated)Rebecca Romijn a meatier part in a movie? Well done to Halle Berry for getting more lines & screen time, but list this on your resume along with Catwoman.
I would go on, but I'd rather get busy waiting for Bryan Singer's movie about the Big Blue Schoolboy.