How many stories can Brett Ratner tell?

Rating: 3/10 (27 July 2006)

Guys I don't give spoilers away so any of my work will steer clear. This movie bothered me considerably. I loved x men 2 and thought what Brett Ratner did with Red Dragon was classy so I was really looking forward to X Men 3. However short and sweet the story is choppy. There are no common threads to the multiple story lines, I got the feeling Brett Ratner wanted to go big and prove himself when he didn't really need to. Wolverine annoyed me at the start and then started to settle into character. This left me uneasy for a while. This movie went through several directors until it landed with Ratner who was ironically toted to direct Superman returns at one stage, This process usually ends badly with passing directors asking for other ideas and new scenes until it lands with Spock at the helm trying to do Kirks job. The film grade was grainy in parts and could have been touched up with digital effects. A similar instance of this was "Daredevil" the grainy picture left a dull impact when it's a comic book movie and bright colors are needed to bring it to life, However I'm sure the DVD version will look nice. As with other comic book films there is usually a sense of continuity in cinematic style themes and characterisation X-Men 3 lacks this and seems to have gone in a completely different direction. Some may say well that's because of the dark phoenix story. Uh not really if you're clever you can do it. I'm a screenwriter once you realise the possibilities then you realise what can be done. There were some really cool parts but over time the bad outweighed the good which leads the film to be messy and left me feeling unengaged. I like the end scene one of my favorite's for leaving a movie franchise open. I'm hoping they'll make X men 4 it's an awesome series. Cheers