Good Action - Bad Sequel

Rating: 5/10 (1 October 2006)

If you love action that's loud and that just gets bigger and bigger then i suppose you'd love this movie, then again, if your looking for closure on the first two X-Men movies then you might want to wait for another X-Men...
It was a fun movie to look at but there's not much more to offer here. There are far too many flaws that just jump out at you. I'm an X-Men fan, so when i see something that just doesn't look right in a movie like this it just annoys me. Firstly, Cyclops, wasn't really important in this movie. He was in the movie a total of about 10 minutes and was just kinda pushed aside. Then there's Juggernaut, what were they thinking casting Vinnie Jones of all people to play him. He should have been WAY bigger also (about 12 foot tall). Even though he's the professors brother, they didn't even look at each other when their paths crossed in the movie, *cringe* not quite the reunion i had expected
I was also disappointed with the unimportance of angel in the film. He's on the DVD case large as life and they thought it important to make his appearance at the beginning of the film (before the credits) longer than the rest of the film. Nightcrawler was NOWHERE to be seen. One of the pivotal characters in the second film, although he survived, wasn't even mention once in the third.
It was also far too short, 99 minutes for the 'last stand' just isn't enough time to end this kind of film series.
And finally, there's the ending, we're left without the professor and magneto has lost his powers (it seems like it's over alright). Ten minutes later it shows magneto playing chess with metal pieces, he extends his arm and suddenly one of the pieces move. After the credits it shows the professor on a hospital bed (SOMEHOW) and we're back to square one... Either end the movie or don't!
I expected a better finale than this, but it just seemed to go the way of the matrix revolutions and terminator 3...downhill