You Must Suffer From ADD In Order To Think This Mess Is Good

Rating: 1/10 (1 July 2006)

*** Spoilers *** Although I do not read the comics any more, it was obvious to me that the producers of this movie attempted to jam months, if not years, of plot/character development into a single 90 minute incomprehensible jumble.
Jean Grey went from a total heroine in X-Men 2, to an unexplainable disaster, with only a 2 minute techno-babble spout by Professor X to lamely attempt to justify this change. I'll bet dollars to dough-nuts that the comics took months, if not longer, to effect this change. And I'll also bet that there was a h*ll of a lot more of a battle for her soul than was portrayed here. In this movie, they actually outdid ID4 for the dubious record of 'The briefest time spent on true emotion in a major motion picture'.
In ID4 it consisted of two lines:
"Mommy sleeping?" "Mommy's sleeping."
In X-Men 3 it was something like:
"Professor, Save me!" Just before she killed him. How deep. How thorough. How riveting. No Cliff Notes Required, None Needed.
If you think that this passes for good movie making, then I suspect that you have never read a real novel in your life. A good movie should develop like a good novel, with real plot development, with believable reasoning behind a character's actions. Not just an impossible personality reversal for the soul purpose to set up another special effects sequence/battle, and nothing else.
This movie was pure garbage. What did we get in the end? Cyclops, dead. They made him out to be a total loser. Professor X, Dead. There goes the most fully developed, strongest character of the entire series. Jean Grey, Dead, in the arms of Wolverine, and why Oh why didn't Wolverine's powers revive her as they did Rogue in X-Men? Can you say, 'Continuity Error'??????
And what did we get in the End End? Why, the realization that Magneto's powers are coming back. In other words, The Cure is not The Cure, and the conflict between Humans and Mutants will certainly go on, only with a good chunk of the most enjoyable characters gone. So nothing but meaningless death happened. What a waste of time.
The concepts so ineptly presented here should have been brought out skillfully over the course of 2 more 2 hour movies, not this 10 pounds of excrement in a 5 pound bag.