Missing the EMOTION GENE.

Rating: 5/10 (25 June 2006)

I am sorry but that really encapsulates what is wrong with X-Men 3. Myself, I am a fan of the X-Men movies because it is the first time ever that superhero movies were ever done well. X-Men 3 does not lack the star power or the orchestrated fight scenes come action scenes but what it lacks is a lot of everything else. Once again thrown into the paradox of the cure hence annihilation of the mutant gene, the very core of the plot is never ever dealt with in character with the numerous x-men characters. It is as if characters are efficiently gotten rid of so as to make sure that audiences know there will not be a fourth X-men. having seen this film at Cannes along with the screening of the press conference where Brett Ratner admitted to the end of this particular franchise but not dismissing a possible Professor X or a Magneto or a Wolverine - doesn't have the same optimism in me if its the likes of Mr. Ratner who will be directing and ignoring the characters/emotion/miles of wonderful tension and concentrating on the action. Performances were below par and Magneto's army of bad mutants never caught your imagination even Pyro a remnant from X-2. One is never allowed to get to know the Phoenix and that wonderful love triangle of Scott, Logan and Jean whose parameters change in this instalment are once again not exploited cinematically and instead an almost boring clichÃ© without emotion anchors it. Much was missing, the real X FACTOR was missing.