Decent flick but a bad sequel.

Rating: 6/10 (25 May 2006)

I saw X-Men 3: TLS earlier today and I can't say I was half as pleased as when I saw X1 or X2. The biggest problem the movie has is that it disregards about everything that happened in the previous installments of the movies and just throws a lot of computer generated effects at you without making a lot of sense plot wise.
*BIG SPOILERS* For instance the sudden return of Jean Grey.. her "death" in X2 was rather dramatic and was also the cliffhanger for X3. Well, in X3 she just pops up out of the water after Cyclops got abit emotional. Just a bright white light and *pop* there she is. I thought they could've given it a little more detail/time than that.
Also, what I really disliked was the fact that the director/scriptwriters decided to kill off about everyone who was important in the first two movies. I know this is the last film of the trilogy, but c'mon.. how the hell can any director get away with killing XAVIER in about halfway the movie? How does the director even dare to touch Professor X? Same goes for Magneto, even though I appreciated the irony at the last scene of the movie when Magneto realizes the limits of normal humans. *SPOILERS END*
All by all the flick was enjoyable even though it kinda killed of the franchise. I think the movie would've been better if directed by Bryan Singer cause he probably would've made the movie more in line with the previous two. X3 felt more like a standalone movie then a sequel, which isn't necessarily a bad thing but it is since I expected a lot of Nightcrawling teleportating action, Xavier going nuts ectetera.
6/10.