Mutants can be mortals too

Rating: 3/10 (27 May 2006)

I, like everyone who was a great fan of the first 2 movies, was very nervous when noting the change of director for this movie. When this happen it is usually a sign of disaster. This time, it was NOT the directors fault, it was the writers fault in the horrible completion of the trilogy. They had absolutely NO IDEAL how they wanted to end this. As my definitive movie review continues, I will rate the movie as a movie and try to explain the movie as related to the comic book. The movie was OK, I will give it a C, and I am being VERY nice about that rating. The beginning was good, and the original baseline plot for the movie was good as well, then things get really out of hand. Too many mutants doing too many things, and not enough focus on ONE plot. During the middle of the movie it jumps around and you feel like they rushed it, in which they did. According to official time the movie was only 1 hour and 44 minutes long. Exactly the same time as the first x-men movie, which was excellent, however they needed to focus the story and should have made it at least a 2 and a half hours, to tell one story correctly. Now, as a movie translation based upon from the books, It gets an F. I purchased x-men number one, and numerous spin-off x-men comics. The movie takes "The Phoenix Saga" and mixes it with "The Coming of Apocalypse". Those who know and love the comic know what I speak of. The Phoenix Saga is arguably the best-written saga ever for a comic book series. For those of you who have NOT read this, please do so for a MUCH better explanation of part of the movie they were trying to create. If you decide to go see this movie, do yourself a favor and read the comic saga first, then judge the movie fairy, you wont be able to fault the director on this one.