How?

Rating: 2/10 (29 May 2006)

How could this movie suck? Somebody tell me how such a great buildup of two great movies could lead to this crap. screw Bret FRATner. Even Chris Tucker couldn't have made this much worse. I felt like there was no action, despite the many action scenes, because there was no tension or excitement. All feelings I had for any characters in the previous films were gone. Deep characters turned into cardboard cutouts. Not to mention
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How could they kill off the best people, and make the best characters completely absent? Rogue and Wolverine's stories disappeared, and Jean Grey was not the Phoenix that the end of the second film foreshadowed. Just a stupid bad guy. Storm also ruined every shot she was in (which was way too many). I remembered reading that Halle Berry only agreed to reprise her role as Storm if they gave her character more significance in the movie, and contained her in more shots. It was very obvious, and she was totally inappropriate. I felt like most of her lines were written for another character. Maybe Cyclops was killed off in the beginning because Halle wanted all his lines. screw THAT!!! I'm so irked, and I apologize for acting on it, but a part of me died last night at 12:30am, and it will never be brought back to life. screw it, I'm through. I miss Bryan Singer. I hope Superman is so incredible that it buries this heap of trash where nobody will find it. I will end with this "inspirational" line that stuck with me since I watched the movie.
"Come on guys, we can't give up. We're X-MEN!!!" -Wolverine
P.S. The CG effects looked like they were straight out of 1996. Angel had no relevance to the story and his wings looked so fake, I couldn't believe the film cost as much as it did. No special effects were convincing, and no action scenes were exciting. I wanted to walk out of the film halfway through, but i forced myself to stay, convinced it would turn around. I should have walked out before I even bought the ticket.