Very short movie for a long story

Rating: 7/10 (10 November 2006)

X-men 3 was a shocker for most comics fan.These people have been dying to see the last installment of the movie trilogy. According to the reviews I read, this was a disappoint but I say it wasn't entirely disappointing.
It was an exciting and action-packed. Beast and Angel was introduced in the movie. I was happy that there were so many fight scenes unlike the first two. I felt happy that Storm was given more fight scenes.
I think that it captured the essence of what the movie is about. The finale of trilogies should be grande and more spectacular.
Brett Ratner went another way of presenting the last movie. If he based the plot entirely on the comic books, then the movie would be way predictable. I also think that the story was so fast and some characters from the previous X-men movies were not given importance.
The dark phoenix was okay for me. Famke acted really good in looking like a disturbed mutant. I think one of the reasons why Rogue and Nightcrawler had no important in the movie was because it could have easily ruined the whole drama going on with Jean Grey. The fact that Rogue could absorb other mutants' powers, and Nightcrawler being able to teleport can easily outplay Phoenix. Rogue could have easily take out Jean's powers and the rest of the enemies. Brett must have thought of this.
Nightcrawler, Toad, Sabertooth were all forgotten in the last movies. I didn't even notice Colossus speak in the movie. Rogue has no importance in the fight scenes. Mystique however lost her powers and got lost in the last scenes. Cyclops died within the first 30 minutes of the movie.
I felt disappointed with Juggernaut and Charles weren't introduced as brothers. Callisto had better powers in the movie unlike in the comics. Shadowcat wasn't introduced properly.
I just felt that it could have been longer just to present a better plot. I like the whole shocker part because it was unexpected.