Very engaged X-fan!

Rating: 7/10 (28 May 2006)

Just saw it last night, and I thought overall they did very well with the film. The special effects were incredible and the action was very engaging. Ratner's style didn't stray too far from the first two and this has the makings of another blockbuster. Though it wasn't as good as X2, I liked it better than first one, where they had not enough character.
There were quite a few things i didn't like about the film, however, The film felt very rushed and it didn't have to be because it was every engaging. The ending was pretty much slapped together and they didn't give Wolverine a satisfactory action sequence, like Singers X2.I know they couldn't possibly keep it completely on par with the comic book but the movie suggests that Jean loves Wolvie more than Cyclops, Wolverine is the one who at the end is enough to stop Jean/Phoenix but Cyclops and Xavier could not? That's extremely inconsistent with the comic characters. Halle Berry is very ordinary as Storm, she doesn't appear to care too much for the character, I won't miss her in the next installment. Wolverine, my favorite character, was watered down which they did explain, but I still don't like it. I like the way they handled the Phoenix, because to start incorporating the out of space element would have been too complicated. I thought too many characters were "killed off" even though they can easily explain bringing them back, i think too much killing and resurrection (even in the comics) just compromises the integrity of the story as a whole. I don't like Storm's story so much that it should be a central theme, but I hear rumblings that Berry wanted it that way. I'm not a big fan of Cyclops, but his "death" was pretty disrespectful for a character of his stature.
Whoever did this film could have done their homework a little better in order to decide who is more important in the hierarchy of things. yet and still, all in all as film alone it hold it's own as very engaging.