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Rating: 1/10 (28 January 2008)

Bryan Singer set it up with an excellent adaption of the X-men into the film genre. The characters were there, the myths was there, the story lines were there...but for some strange reason Brett Ratner throws all of that out to give us a awful story crammed with a plot of nothing but special effects. I had such high hopes after X2, Bryan Singer set up one of the most monumental sagas of all time at the end of X2 and Brett Ratner ruined it. If you want a good movie read the Dark Phoenix Saga, it had such a better plot. The movies downfalls started with it being an hour and thirty minutes, Spider Man 3 may have been long but it was enjoyable, this was short and not. None of the characters ever really shine her except for Magneto, Logan and Storm. In fact the X-men do not exist accept for these people. Angel could have been an intriguing character if he had more than one and a half lines. Rogue whimpered out of existence with only 8 lines in the movie. Storm was given more screen time to do nothing but get beat and of course wolverine got the star for being the hero he was never meant to be. X-men has always been a team film, not a film about a guy with claws. There really was no need for the cure story line a much better one would have been the advent of the sentinels which you see in the first sequence. It was great they brought Jean back (by the way the phoenix is a flaming bird...get it flaming...not a dark willow wannabe...Ratner you owe Joss Whedon money for taking his idea)but who cared she was back since she really didn't matter. Her story should have gotten Nice attention. Basically this is how you ruin a movie, make it filled with special effects and put the characters on a backseat and have the car keep jumping. I am appalled by this movie, all you had to do was pick up a comic book, the storyline was right there. So in closing do yourself a favor, read the book, watch the cartoon but don't bother watching X3...actually it's not X3 i will never accept X3 as part of the movie sagas, and hope someone will remake this into the movie it should have been.