Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong WRONG!!!

Rating: 2/10 (29 September 2006)

This movie is full of action and super powers, yeah. Okay. But unlike the other X-Men films, this one shreds the stories of nearly every character in pursuit of the almighty dollar.
First of all, let's start with the fact that Nightcrawler has been deleted. Yes, deleted. Not only is he not in this film his disappearance is totally unexplained. Nobody even mentions him in passing. It's as if he never existed at all.
Second, let's look at the fact that Scott Summers is killed right off the bat, ruining any hope for a continuation of the epic love story between he and Jean depicted in the comics.
Third, let's look at how the powers of nearly every newly introduced mutant in this movie are totally wrong. Calisto's power was that she enhanced the powers of other mutants around her. She was a mutant power booster and battery not a super speed chick. Also, Calisto was unattractive and proud of it. She wasn't some cutesy bebop chick. Jean Grey as the Dark Phoenix should have had advanced control of telekinesis and telepathy as well as pyrokinesis. That's right, FIRE control. She wasn't supposed to be turning people to ash with a microwave-like ability. It was supposed to be FIRE. What's the matter couldn't get a real enough looking flame? Spent too much making the stupid magnetic bridge scene? And then there's Juggernaut. No, he's not a mutant first off and his power has nothing to do with him being in motion. Plot point, he was Professor Xavier's Half Brother, ungifted by mutant powers he grew jealous of Charles and began searching for a way to be more powerful, better than his brother. He found a mystical power source, a magical crystal he inset into a helmet that turned him into the Juggernaut, an unstoppable war machine from an era of long forgotten magiks. That sounds like it could be a movie in itself doesn't it? Doesn't it!? And let's not forgot, Juggernaut is not 'bloody' English. And then finally let's look at Kitty Pryde, aka. Shadowcat, one of my all time favorite characters from the comics. We finally get to see her powers do more than walk her thru a door and what does Ratner do? He completely screws up the rules for phasing. When desolidified (phased) the person phased does not exist in space normally, however all objects they pass through do continue to exist normally. This means that when you unphase someone in the middle of say "a concrete floor", the floor would still exist as the unphasing individual became solid again. The floor, as it was there before the unphasing individual, would take precedence and become part of the individual's chest. This means that whatever was in his chest before would become whatever material the floor was made of. Juggernaut in such a case should have died instantly of shock. Not to mention the fact that his heart would have stopped anyway when it became concrete. This was very thoroughly explained in the comic books.
Once again Hollywood craps out a film where no one bothers to do any damn research. This movie is just the shell of the former films with a shiny, glossy, candy coating. Ratner ruined this franchise as surely as Schumacher ruined the Batmans.
Oh yeah, and killing off Professor X and then having him transfer his mind into a coma patient? What an inventive way to get out of having to have Patrick Stewart if you make another sequel. NOT. If you did a little research you would find that Magneto turned back to good and became the director of the school after Charles died. But oh, it doesn't matter what the comics did, does it? Hollywood sucks.
An 8 for action minus 6 for lack of research and poor writing and directing equals a 2 rating.