Good Action, Non-Exsitant Character Development

Rating: 1/10 (27 May 2006)

First I'm going to apologize for my spelling, I'm a horrible speller. I must say that i was extremely disappointed with this third X Men movie. I have been a faithful X Men fan for years and I have been anticipating the release of this movie for months. If an action movie is your type of thing then this is a great movie for you, but if you care at all about character development then wait for this to come to DVD because it isn't worth your money. There is many new characters, such as Angel, Shadowcat and Beast, that are completely underdeveloped. What was intended to be a love triangle between Iceman, Rogue and Shadowcat, turned out to be a slight friendship and a really jealous Rogue who seemed very much like a spoiled brat. Another thing that bothered me about Rogue, previously one of my favorite characters, was that she seemed to take the easy way out and not face the challenges of life. There was also needless deaths in the movie, i will not name names but if you watch it you will know who i mean. Angel, who was seen many times in the trailer, got about the same amount of time that he got in the trailer, about 2 minutes. I was also disappointed with the Pheonix. I was expecting the flaming bird and just got a really ugly version of Jean Grey! One more thing that bothered me was that Nightcrawler mysteriously vanished. He was there at the end of X2 and not even mentioned in this movie. Did the directer think we would be that stupid to not realize that one of the characters has disappeared! The Only redeeming thing about the movie was the two endings. The actual ending left it good for another (hopefully better) movie and the ending that occurred after the credits left you with even more hope for another movie. One thing that i did like about this movie was the casting of Kelsey Grammar. He did a perfect job as Beast, i just wished we could have seen more of him. Well, there is more I'd like to say about this movie but it would give away to much and i wouldn't want to spoil it for y'all.