This Movie Is A Massive Let Down

Rating: 3/10 (27 May 2006)

As a huge X-Men and superhero film fan i was really looking to the third instalment of this so far cracking series of films. I was a little surprised to see that Brian Singer had left the series just a few weeks before filming started, but just put this down to the fact he was doing the up coming Superman film. Having seen the film I think he realised what he had to work with and bailed while he still could. Don't get me wrong, as always the special effects were awesome but the casting, script, direction were all poor. I mean Vinnie Jones just what were they thinking when he was cast. Brett Ratner was also a questionable choice as director as he hasn't made many films to date, with the pick of the bunch being Rush Hour. From the trailers and hype i saw and read concerning this film i assumed it was about the emergence of Phoenix and Angel, they were both introduced but nothing much more. We saw a good deal of what Phoenix is capable of but it was just used as an excuse to abuse the special effects budget nothing more and Angel must have amassed all of about 1 minute of screen time, every second of which he was pouting at the camera. I was thoroughly disappointed by this film and it has annoyed me because of this. I was actually bored sitting in a packed cinema and its the first time i can genuinely say that.