Good Entertainment - Great Special FX

Rating: 8/10 (26 May 2006)

If you want to see a good action movie with fabulous sfx just choose this one. For 140 minutes you will find yourself enjoying a simple and graphically superb movie. When you go to the cinema and choose a movie like X-Men or Matrix or Terminator 2 you don't expect to see in the credits names like Woody Allen or Paul Thomas Anderson. You just go there for the fun of seeing something that pushes the limits of reality one step ahead and plays a little bit with your fantasies and imagination. This is just what X-Men 3 is. Pure and simple fun even though strong themes like racial discrimination are introduced but only approached superficially.
For those that know/read the comics: I've been reading the comics for over 20 years now. Don't expect to see the comics translated faithfully in to a movie. You will be disappointed. This movie is also for you, but mainly is an action movie that depends on the money that everyone pays to see it to generate profits. If you love the comics and will hate to see them torn apart in a movie based on them stay at home. John Byrne, one of the plotters and the penciler of the original stories that were used for X-Men's 3 screenplay (the Dark Phoenix Saga) choose to not see the movie and I can understand why. The original story, in my opinion one of the best comic books stories ever to be published, is almost unrecognizable in the movie. Everything is changed. Don't go to the cinema searching for the comics. Just go for the fun and enjoy a great action movie.