Not as could as it should have been.

Rating: Null/10 (26 May 2006)

From my childhood, I can remember reading the x men comics and watching the animated series, and when the 1st two films were released, I was impressed with the high level of artistic license and strong characterisation, along with a strong integral plot, thanks mainly to the direction of Bryan Singer. Imagine my horror when I sat through the 3rd installment and witnessed a rather dumbed down generic action film with an insanely weak plot. Expecting the third film to be based on the Phoenix Saga, i was severely disappointed when the film just delivered the thin plot, one liner ridden generic action film that completely mis-interprets the core story of the x men. After the death of Cyclops and Professor X, Rogue taking the cure for mutation, the x men are down to Wolverine and Storm, with a couple of trainee x men. The addition of Beast was awesome and his characterisation was faithful to the original material, but so many more x men characters could have been used, like Gambit, Jubilee, Archangel, etc. What Bret Ratner has done is effectively end the trilogy with a very disappointing anti climax that will leaves fans of the first 2 films annoyed and unsatisfied.