Disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (18 July 2007)

SPOILER ALERT
After what I thought were mediocre outings for the first 2 X-Men movies, I went into this with somewhat high expectations. I was disappointed.
I think 2 things are required to make a good superhero comic book to movie adaption.
1. Good acting likewise with all other movies 2. Great action to showcase their super powers
OK well I think the acting was fine, not that it mattered anyway. Patrick Stuart as usual, excellent. A shame he had to die though. X-Men 3 failed in the action department when it mattered: the end. The end was were it really mattered, because I thought almost all of the movie was mediocre up to that point. And if there was a good ending, that'll be more than enough to make up for it.
What do we get instead? About 50 raving mutant lunatics running to their demise against the humans armed with anti-mutant guns (the new weapon that the humans developed to instantly remove mutant powers). That didn't make sense at all. Were they really that stupid? The mutant's powers were pathetic and they didn't put up a fight at all. Silly scene.
Iceman and Pyro squaring off. It seems these 2 guys hated each other, so I expected a big fight. I didn't get that. We got Pyro shooting his fire at Iceman. Iceman shooting his ice at Pyro. Pyro is winning... Iceman weakening. Iceman steps it up another gear and overpowers Pyro to win... woodeedoo. At first sight that scene would have looked cool. But if you step back and have a think about, really it was cheap and unoriginal, tied in with expensive special effects to make it look cool. Nah, not cool at all. Iceman big let down.
I think that was the movie's biggest problem. We never really get to see the mutants fight each other with their mutant powers properly. I mean, they do use their powers, but it's just too underwhelming! You don't need flashy special effects to make it happen. Look at the old Superman movies, see what I mean?!
Star of the movie. Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.
I suspect a 4th X-Men movie after seeing Magneto move that chess piece slightly at the end. If that is true, it'll have to be far far far better than this!!!