Way to epic

Rating: 6/10 (26 May 2006)

Well I went into the movie with high hopes and seemingly enough I wasn't exactly let down, in fact I loved the movie and that's because i'm a die hard x-men fan also because the film in general was not as bad as people have been knocking it.
The issue of this movie... It was way to rushed, I certainly think if Ratner had a few more months with this film it could have topped X2 but it falls short with the progress and character development.
It seems to me that 20th century pretty much said "hey Ratner, here's the film...make it happen" and with what short time Brett had I think he decided to try and make this movie more of a big action scene movie because with superheros you can usually do that and with X2 in front of that he'd thought he'd have a big enough fan base to come and see the movie and he's right.
I like this film on a number of levels such as the action scenes it was more emotional and all it's comic book references but where it falls short is it's pacing, character development and sometimes the dialog which was up and down I would have loved to singers version but i'm certainly fine with Ratner's version he did well with what he had
my main problems are the deaths. in like a 15 minute interval jeans kills Scott (supposedly) and prof.x and it did bugged me when it took a while for someone (wolverine) to finally ask "jean, where's Scott?" but no one else noticed or cared the president seemed like he took his opinions form everyone else and magneto seemed weaker than previous and professor x seemed straight up sassy "i don't have to explain myself, at least to you of all people" also COLLOUSUS he could have fought JUggie but he didn't and that pisses me off he was definitely under used so here are the mysteries The scene after the credits is ass follows
::Moria Mctaggert walks in room of unconscious patient::
::she checks his vitals and whatnot::
:: the we hear "hello Moria" and she gets this shocked look on her face::
who is it? none other than professor x who transferred his consciousness into some coma victim
you'll kind of see it coming early on in the film if you pay attention to him talking about transferring his conscious to his students
but his death scene was awesome
also the cure isn't permanent...towards the end magneto as you all have heard moves a chess piece barely and it fades to black
BUT I FREAKING LOVED IT you can't hate it for what it's not but LOVE it for what it is it's better than the first 2 x-films in it's own right
what do y'all think?