Couldn't think of an "X-" pun

Rating: 7/10 (25 May 2006)

To be honest this is nowhere near as bad as I had feared. Third installmentitis hovers at the edge of your visual fields throughout; it just never comes into view. Very little character development has taken place - that that has is fairly extreme and binary in nature, good/bad sort of stuff. All SFX are up to expected standards, but nothing we've not seen before. Acting is very much by the numbers. There are enough new characters to keep ringing the changes, however, perhaps not enough concentration on those that we are familiar with. The script and ideas seem excellent - perhaps in other hands a darker film was lurking which could have been so much more satisfying for a conclusion. In essence; 100 minutes of crowd-pleasing bunkum with enough mythos to probably keep the fan-boys happy.