X-Men 3: Awesome Despite Cheap Shots

Rating: Null/10 (26 May 2006)

X-Men: The Last Stand is a thrilling, and in my opinion superior, addition to the series. Never have I left the theater hoping for a sequel as much as I did after getting up from my seat after this movie.
As an avid X-Men movie, comic, collector's card, and Fox cartoon fan I would like to respond to the negative reviews of this movie offered previous to its release date by some members of the IMDb community as well as other noted critics at large.
1) Direction: Brett Ratner has done a phenomenal job in weaving a great, emotionally charged story, and giving the true X fans what they want to see on screen which is the awe and amazement of their animation or comic characters live on-screen for us all to look agape. Sure, it is not exactly true to the comic but how in the world is Ratner to re-create, to the T, a storyline like the Phoenix saga. Come on people -- Ratner has given us the image/ ethos of total cosmic power without attempting a feat that is digitally/film impossible at this moment. Rest assured: he weaves a bit of our comic lore with twists and turns that are gut-wrenching and stupendously visually appealing. Granted he didn't berate the relevance of the mutant scenario with regard to common levels of discrimination that we see out in the real world, but It was there, he is Not Singer, but it is A Good Thing. Ratner has found a way to balance an emotional core throughout the movie in my opinion and give us the action that was usually saved for the opening/closing in the first two films of the series.
2) Miscellaneous Mutants: As we all know, Stan Lee has created a world of uncanny heroes/ villains and within a single movie we Cannot learn about the internal life and motivations of each one, nor can random non-star people like hog screen time, But what Ratner has done, with a great script, is show the different shapes, sizes, strengths mutants can come in--he gives us a taste of what everyone can do while, quite Appropriately leaving the big- budget action sequences to the mutants we all love and are invested in the most.
This movie will absolutely thrill you and place you on the verge of tears and cursing at the same time throughout entire film, it will place you on the edge of your seats as it finds ways of revealing what an awesome spectacle it would be to have these characters be real, it will annoy you at times b/c It Is Not the Comic but Thrill you when you recognize and can foresee key events, it will leave you wanting more.