This one bites the big one

Rating: 3/10 (24 May 2006)

Never before have I been so prompted to find places to bag a movie... but I think this one takes the cake... and leaves very little for anyone else...
A cure for mutants, sure... but a cure that also prevents adding X-Men 4 etc ? Someone needs to give the writer a cure for the dribble that came out for this piece of crap I think when Bryan Singer left the film and took most of the staff with him... the actors should have gone too... hell some of them barely get a 1/4 of the film's viewing time, before they are killed off, so why bother coming in to work at all ? New and interesting characters come in, and *poof* they're gone. Unlike the previous two movies where the bad guys might get hurt a little and we may or may not see them in future movies (or spin-offs), this one decides quite coldly that in order for the story to continue, the character must die. And not just one character, but 90% of them. Old or new...
The only logical spin off that might occur now could be called: X-Men: The Next Generation Logically speaking of course, because you would need to introduce a whole new set of characters just to replace all those that have been lost. The universe would already be set up, all you have to do is create a bad guy of the week and voilà, instant spin off.
The ending itself sets the tone for the whole movie really, bland and slow. All the characters are getting about their normal lives, which is what I now wish I had done rather than forking out money to watch it.
The action sequences were so so, but rather more reminiscent of horror flicks and cheesy sci fi, than the previous sweeping action sequences of the prior two films. The fight sequence left you wondering who was actually fighting who ? Then reality struck me, and I realised it was the "X-Men" vs "The Extras" To be blunt, the story was crap, the action sequences lame, and the whole trilogy ruined in my mind. I make no apologies for my post, I honestly feel disgusted by the whole movie. As I said, I rarely post bad things about a movie, but when you want to leave before the end credits... what's good about the movie ?