How did this happen?

Rating: 5/10 (3 June 2006)

The first Xmen movie was relatively good with slight flaws, it lacked character development, it was too short, etc. The second corrected those mistakes, yet something was still missing, it was just short of perfection. In walking into the Last Stand I had high expectations and was convinced the problems would be fixed entirely, making this movie the best of the three and closing the series well. Though the movie was not bad, I was met by as shorter film than the first with a frail plot. The movie lacked the flow and satisfaction of the first two, to me the plot was more flawed than the first. Where I expected excellence I found mediocrity, and left the theater in crushing disappointment. If you don't enter the theater with the high expectations I had, you will probably be satisfied with it, but it is undoubtedly the worst of the three. I didn't know whether I wanted to cry or punch something for what they did, it had such great potential.