Really left a bad taste in my mouth

Rating: 1/10 (3 June 2006)

I couldn't believe what I was seeing on the big screen in front of me. Why Ratner chose this direction to take the film is beyond me. He took what we all knew and loved about the X Men and the movies and threw the rule book out the window. If he gave better cause for the deaths of some major characters and didn't just give us doubts about Why they were killed maybe I could have enjoy it better. On some good notes were great roles tailored for good actors. Grammar and Mckellan shine as Beast and Magneto and I expected nothing but the best from those two and they delivered. Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry were very underwritten in this one but some of the younger actors came out pretty good. Kitty and Iceman had some good chemistry, but Rouge and Colossus are left for nothing again. Vinnie Jones nailed down Juggernaut pretty good but Pyro didn't become the evil henchman I thought he would, he was more like a package boy. Kinda sad they didn't even seem to want to develop Archangel at all. Plus since they had Bolivar Trask as a character I really really wanted to see a couple of Sentinels walking around. Well heres hoping Spider Man 3 doesn't kill its franchise either.