Much worse than you were afraid it would be

Rating: 1/10 (26 May 2006)

I started reading the x-men comics back in the 60s up through the middle 90s. I loved the characters. I really liked the 1st X-men movie, and loved the 2nd. This one seems to have been made by people that never read any of the comics, or enjoyed the first 2 movies. I don't know what you would think of it if you weren't familiar with the characters. The special effects were good, but that is becoming routine. SPOILERS it really bothered me that they would kill off Professor X and Cyclops. Anyone who has read comics knows that much can be done without resorting to killing off main characters. That was what made Jean Grey's "death" in the 2nd movie so powerful. Okay, so to follow the story she had to come back, that is okay but then to have Magneto turn on Mystique, have Jean kill Cyclops, then have her kill professor X, and a company or two of the US Army, I really don't understand it.
They have said this is the last movie, I really hope it is, but then since they have pretty much wrecked the team I don't know what they have left to do. I thought Brett Ratner was going to mess it up, but I thought maybe it would be dull, but I never guessed he could make it in a way that would make me regret seeing it. I really, really wished I had not seen this movie.
From the number of people that gave it a "10" I guess some people like it but then a lot of people give "10"s to just about any movie out there so that doesn't mean too much. I hope the movie bombs and Ratner never directs any thing other than music videos for bands I never heard of. That is probably too much to hope for but I do know I will never pay money to see anything he directs again.