Xactly what I Xpected

Rating: 6/10 (30 May 2006)

A pox on Byran Singers house, for as soon as he abandoned the X-men series he doomed it to a sub-par existence. When I heard that Ratner was taking over the project, I imagined many bad things in store for X-3. I thought the characters would have all action and no substance, the story would be mostly pointless, and the overall feeling of the movie just would have the same emotional magic that Bryan was able to bring to the screen. As it turns out, I was mostly right. The character arcs that were in 1 and 2 just weren't continued to satisfaction. The musical motifs were completely discarded except for the opening sequence. The main problem with this movie came from the script/plot. Too many new characters and hardly any thought put into making us care about them. The movie is also riddled with pacing problems. Aside from all these problems... yeah, other elements of the movie were fine. I'd have to say that I enjoyed half the movie; just after I came out of the movie theater I said, "That was a roller-coaster! Good scene followed by bad scene followed by good scene (and so on) throughout the entire movie!." So thank you Ratner, for turning what should have been a better movie into a completely ordinary and unexceptional piece of Hollywood.