Another way to save Jean

Rating: 7/10 (23 June 2006)

I'll keep this comment short. i've seen this film and i loved it, but... i did have some problems with it. the first would be that i didn't enjoy the fact that they managed to kill off three major characters, while others were severely underplayed and underused. the second problem is the solution they found for the whole Jean/Dark Phoenix issue. i mean, they had only about a million syringes with the mutant cure, but Wolverine had to say he loved her first, and then stab her. Couldn't he do to her what they had done to Magneto just minutes earlier, that is, cure her? No class 5 mutant power, no more Dark Phoenix, just plain Jean Grey. She lives, repents for her crimes and runs into the sunset with Wolverine. But i suppose her death made much better cinema than saving her and making her human. the third problem is still connected to the whole Phoenix stuff. I think they didn't make just a great job of explaining the motivation behind Jean's actions. Xavier explains the whole split personality stuff in about 2 minutes to an enraged Wolverine, who totally resents the idea of anyone being controlled, and that's it. No more debates about why Jean/Phoenix likes destroying everything around her. The special effects were great, but if there's no substance, like a logical explanation, to support them, it all becomes kind of tedious.