This movie was just disappointing

Rating: Null/10 (29 May 2006)

X-Men III: The Last Stand is the latest, and possibly last X-Men movie to hit the big screen. Sadly, the trilogy did not go out with a bang. Taking place a little while after the second one ended, X-Men III picks up right where X2 leaves off, save for the fact that Nightcrawler (my personal favorite character) is nowhere to be found. The movie starts out exciting, but gets slower and slower as the movie progresses. The plot line about a cure for mutants seems interesting enough, but as you go through the movie, you find that the plot just isn't so great. The action scenes are neat, but as my friend says, once you've seen Storm control the weather once, you've seen her control it a thousand times. The new additions of Beast, and Angel, plus having Shadowcat play a bigger role was a nice touch, but they don't make as much of a splash as Nightcrawler and Pyro did in X2. What really made me hate this movie was that it simply butchered the comic. The first two did this too, but not to nearly as much of an extent. I won't tell you how they butchered it, but let's just say that many comic fans will be MAD when they see the biggest change to the story. As said before, the fight scenes have their moments, but they get kinda similar. The final fight scene is almost a carbon copy of the first one. Even though that was what they meant to do, it didn't work to well. I was horribly sad at the end of the movie, just because the first two were just far better, and it's too bad that Bryan Singer hopped off the bandwagon to direct Superman, leaving Brett Ratner to turn a movie that could have been great into a train wreck. I hope that if and when an X-Men 4 is made, the band of mutants will be brought back to the full glory they deserve, and please, PLEASE PUT IN GAMBIT!!!!