Had some good moments

Rating: 6/10 (27 May 2006)

First the acting. Ian McKellen as Magneto was nice to watch. He has become one of my favorite actors. His role as Teabing in the Da Vinci Code, his role as Magneto and his role as Gandalf in Lord of the Rings has proved to me he is one of Hollywood's well seasoned actors. I look forward to his movie Magneto coming out in 2007. Halle Berry never won me over as Storm in the first two movies. She did better in this one. She seemed more comfortable with the character Storm. But I've always thought Halle Berry as Storm was miscast. Hugh Jackman as Logan was better in the second movie. By X-Men 3 his character seemed tired. But the showdown with him and Jean was really good. Famke Janssen didn't do much as Jean. She stood around a lot. But since Jean was more Phoenix in this movie there was not much need for her dialogue. And until I just looked at the cast and crew I never ever realized the Beast aka Dr. Hank McCow was Kelsey Grammar. Wow! Kelsey Grammar did a good job playing beast and made the Beast an extremely dignified persona.
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The movie was decent enough. It had some unexpected moments like the death of Professor Charles Xavier, Scott, and Jean. Scott dying so early in the film caught me off guard and I think the death was premature. The death of the professor left me stunned in my seat and throughout the entire film I expected him to return. He never did and that left a void in the film. It was as if rest of the characters lost direction. I learned more about the Phoenix nature of Jean in this film and that was one of the best parts. It really fleshed out her mutant aspect and we saw what Jean was REALLY made of. While the other characters were well developed in the earlier films, I realize how underdeveloped Jean's character in the previous films. Watching her character develop independent of the Scott/Jean romance was refreshing. Phoenix came into her own in this film and we really saw how Phoenix and Jean are two personalities. What I did not understand was the need for Wolverine to kill Jean when the other mutants had their powers neutralized using those darts. Why could Jean not be neutralized yet still live? They neutralized the powers of Magneto and Mystique why not Jean? I saw no point in her dying. The Angel was a nice added mutant to the film. This movie had many more mutants than the previous two and the "us verses them" standoff worked out well. Juggernaunt was a hoot with a limited IQ.