X-Men: The Last Stand, Awesome but could've been better

Rating: 9/10 (28 May 2006)

Got me good old chance to watch X-Men 3 and being a lover of 1 and 2 I couldn't pass the opportunity up. The film after watching countless trailers was looking awesome, the fight scenes, Jean Grey storyline and new characters all made this look to be the best X-Men yet and it was, the sad thing is that it could have been so much better.
The storyline featuring Jean Grey was very good, it was great to see Famke play the good and evil part, I mean she had to quite literally switch personalities and the beauty of it was Famke could be good, evil or in between. Patrick was like his other performance flawless, you really felt for him when you needed to and it was truly a pleasure watching him act. Literally all the cast was excellent, Ian McKelen who lit up the screen, even James Marsden showed off his acting talents in the shortime he was on-screen.
*spoiler* The bad thing about the film was the deaths; yes it was good to finally see a film that wasn't scared to kill of the main characters, but I hate Scott Summers, I hated him in the first and second films and yet watching being removed from the film in a sense removed part of the X-Men and so in the final scene it just didn't seem right watching the X-Men fight without Scott. The same is said for Charles, a gut wrenching death which I thought was very brave by the film makers and pulled off perfectly, but in the aftermath it seemed like something was missing from the film without Xaviers presence. *spoiler*
*spoiler* Also another bad point was the fact that 50% of the brotherhood seemed mortal, yes they were all mutants, but because we never good a good look at each mutants it just seemed like a big bar fight between the soldiers and 'pawns'. I would have also liked to see a lot more of Angel, I thought he was awesome and would have been awesome in the fight if he was actually fighting (also I noticed in an X-Men 3 film poster he had an X-Men suit on, yet he didn't in the film). Also despite me not liking Anna Paquins acting I would have again liked to have seen her in the final fight scene. *spoiler*
Overall I think the film is a must watch, a 9 if not 10 out of 10 film, I would have just liked to see some more of the mutant abilities and seen bigger roles for Angel and maybe Scott coming back to life. 20 minutes more film would have opened up more questions and would have truly made this film an epic movie.
Oh and I also note everyone saying this is a trilogy, well they have to make a 4th, not only did the final after credit scene show this, but also the final scene with Magneto or Eric Leshnerr as he appeared to the audience in those last moments of the film.