Why does everyone love this movie?

Rating: 3/10 (18 July 2006)

I'm not putting the people down who enjoyed X-Men 3: The Last Stand, but I just fail to see what's so great about this movie. Its not a bad movie per say, it is fun and loaded with action, but in comparison to the previous X-Men movies its not nearly as good.
There are a few decent things in this movie. The opening scene shows a younger Magneto and Professor X, which is almost scary how the makeup and effects artists made Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart look 30 years younger. Ian McKellan as always gives a top notch performance and once again steals the show from everyone else like in the last two X-Men films. As I said before, this movie is loaded with action scenes, but that's also one of the movie's flaws.
When I first heard Bryan Singer was no longer directed X-Men 3, I knew this movie would not be as good as the last two. When I heard Brett Ratner was directing, that was the nail in the coffin. Singer focused on story and character development in the previous two installments while Ratner focused on action and special effects. While I am a fan of action and special effects, there needs to be some depth and driving force to lead up to the action.
Another major flaw of X-Men 3 is that there are way too many characters running around. Several main characters in the previous films are killed off early on just make way for new ones. Most of the new characters are introduced 123 and are used later on to perform one function in a later scene. Some characters are barely in the movie and you're left wondering, why were they even in this at all? There's a lot more about this movie that annoys me, but I could go on forever. I don't recommend this movie, but who am I? I seem to be the only one who dislikes X-Men 3.