Brett Ratner better hope I don't find out where he lives . . .

Rating: 1/10 (29 May 2006)

Alright first off, I am not a rabid X-Men fanboy. I read some of the comics, watched some of the cartoons. The first X-Men movie was, I felt, good, but short of great. X2 however was spectacular. It is the only movie I have ever seen in the theatre more than twice. I say this to show that I went into X3 with the best of expectations, I wasn't looking to pick it apart.
This movie has proved to me that a director can well and truly ruin a film. Where the hell was the plot? There was no story arc, there was a series of disjointed events with pretty colors! Fifteen minutes into the movie Cyclops is dead, no build up, no explanations, jean walks out of a lake and sucks him dry. I DON'T EVEN LIKE CYCLOPS! and it still managed to annoy me. All the characterization the first two movies built up was either ignored or destroyed. One of the most hyped things about this movie was the introduction of Angel, and he winds up with like five minutes of screen time. The film degenerated into a showcase of Storm, Wolverine, and Jean. This happens to include two of my favorite characters, and I STILL thought it both sucked and blew! And where the HELL was Night Crawler! And how does Kitty Pride rate X-Man status? She doesn't become useful until she becomes Shadowcat dang it!
Bryan Singer did such a great job with the first two movies that the utter abortion that is X3 makes me almost want to cry. It could have been so very very good, and yet it's so very very bad. If I was Singer, I'd be ticked. As in, it's shotgun time, ticked.