the biggest disappointment in movie history.

Rating: 1/10 (26 May 2006)

I have been an x-men fan since i was 7 years old. I love the first two movies, and after seeing this piece of crap i feel many things. Betrayal, Anger, a desire to kill Mr. Zak Penn. With x-3 they seemed to decide to throw out any reason to stay faithful to the comic book... and I'm not being a whiny fanboy... they really went nuts with this. I would say more but i wanna keep this spoiler free. And forget any hopes for a decent sequel, they destroyed the entire series with this one. And this is not the only problem. The previous films were filled with dialogue and character development, this film has none. There is a scene in the x-jet where we have storm, wolverine, beast, iceman, shadowcat, and collosus... but there is next to NO dialog. The rest of the movie follows this closely. Colossus probably has two lines in the whole film. Iceman and Rogue who were previously very deep characters have almost nothing here. Pyro has become a caricature. Angel makes Lady Deathstrike look like a lead character. And forget about Cyclops and Jean. Though Jean certainly has some good moments, as do Xavier, Beast, Wolverine, and Magneto... they're far to few, and they do not outweigh the bad. Storm is depressingly dull. I honestly have always felt that way about the character.. but she has a very large role in this so it's highlighted. I can't help but think part of this movie's bad plot has to do with Halle Berry's demands for a bigger part, which is sad, because i would rather a good movie with no Storm than this POS. As to the story... it involves a cure to mutation, which sounds ridiculous, against everything the x-men stand for. Like the government giving out vacines to gays that makes them straight and minorities that will turn them into White Angle Saxon Protestants. But not only do the X-men end up defending the people behind this, they end up fighting alongside them. They have turned the message of tolerance for individuality on it's head in this movie and I was disgusted. I found myself cheering on the Brotherhood. I don't even understand why they went this way, they could have made a great movie focusing soley on the Phoenix or about the Sentinels, but instead they went with this. While the X-men have always been about protecting mankind in general in this plot they feel way to establishment. They actually seem to be working with the government. Not only that but it seems as though the films creators want us to be on the government's side. It's really sad that what was probably my favorite film franchise had to end like this. I personally want an apology from Fox and my money back.