Disappointing, but not terrible

Rating: 6/10 (29 May 2006)

The movie was disappointing but it had some descent qualities. Mckkellan and Stewart were great. The action sequence at the end was pretty good especially with Beast.
Ratner rushed through the movie without too much character development except for Jean. That was the extent of his existence in the film. At least the audience got to know Nightcrawler and Ice Man from the second movie and Wolverine from the first one. They could have done more with Juggernaut. Gambit should have at least made a Cameo in this movie. Ever since I was a kid all the kids that I knew who loved X-men were keen on wolverine and Gambit. Even now the people are begging for Gambit in this so-called finale. And Angel could have been cut out of the movie. HE had little purpose in this movie and his scenes were corny.
I miss Bryan Singer's team and the way they handled the previous movies. They were written and directed well. The second one was darker and had more emotion. This movie had no real creative direction.
The movie plays itself as a TV episode. Nothing is resolved after the movie. Magneto and the other mutants will probably get their powers back and the humans are only slightly aggitated at the mutants. The story should have escalated to the point that humans fully attack the mutants with the use of Sentinals and other machines. That would have made for a more interesting finale.
It's not Ratner's fault because Singer set the bar up high. Maybe if the studio would have waited for him to finish Superman we could have had a better 200 million dollar X-Men movie.