Bret Ratner ruined a franchise

Rating: 1/10 (26 May 2006)

Simple. You can't kill Professor X. Bret Ratner ruined the franchise. I cannot express enough how poor the story was for this movie. The movie was entirely special effects driven. As a fan of the comic and a fan of the previous two movies I just want you to know that there was no justification for the directions that this script went. You can't kill Cyclops, you can't kill Jean Grey, and you can't kill Professor X. Why? It's like making a Superman movie and having him die at the end, or ending the Friends series with the apartment blowing up with all of the friends in it. It makes no sense, and no one wants to see it. Those characters were too important to the franchise and there is no justification for what Bret Ratner did. To me it only showed that he had no idea what X-Men was about nor any respect for the characters. I give this film a 1 out of 10.