lotta ways to skin a cat, bub...

Rating: Null/10 (2 June 2006)

deaths the x-men lineup we get by the end of this film (sans prof x, cyclops, and jean grey, with storm leading) is, in my opinion, completely faithful, in spirit if not in detail, to the original comics. so instead of prof x in space, and cyclops roaming the earth in the wake of jean's suicide, they are killed by jean, who is herself killed by wolverine (the killing blow-the same abdomen-jabbing he gave rachel summers (phoenix II) in the comics-is a welcome reference in my opinion, and nicely displays wolverine's ability to kill with love as well as rage). so now the remaining x-men need to fend for themselves, just as in the comics. and just as in the comics, they will all emerge from the "revolving door" that heaven has set aside for mutants. hopefully because that wasn't the real jean (as in the comics), and the real jean, upon waking, will reconstruct prof x and cyclops, before imposing her own psychic blocks on herself. prof x's mind will have been active the whole time, b/c he transferred it into the body of the brain dead man from the scene with moira mactaggart...
phoenix there was no "fire and life, incarnate...", but that's because she ISN'T, she's just a super powerful mutant, one whose physical form changes, or even deteriorates, in proportion to the massive power she channels. although, i wish her actions at the end could have been more meaningful, as in destroying every bit of the cure on earth with a single thought. oh well, because...
the cure ...is not permanent, as shown in the last shot. if anything, it will probably make every mutant who got it eventually stronger.
iceman/pyro the ONE THING that really got to me was this battle. iceman vs. pyro looks great on paper, with ice slides and boulders and flaming birds and snakes, sculptured ice vs. living flame...but no, just a dumb elemental head-butt. duh.
a fan approves i have followed and loved the x-men since childhood, and i believe this film does justice to the series in a filmic way: the only way it can or should. any fan with gripes should stick to more sophisticated mediums, like comic books.