Good for the movie goer, OK for a true fan!

Rating: 7/10 (31 May 2006)

X:3 is a good movie, full of action and a plot that will have you rooting for the good guys! A fair few shocks will make you sit up in your seat with a butt kicking action packed finale, but will also leave you hoping that 20th Century Fox see sense to make X:4. An awful lot of detail and character development was left out and you may leave the cinema wondering what happened to certain characters and wishing other characters that remained in the background throughout the movie weren't developed more. The movie does stay true to the comics in a lot of ways, but lets itself down in others. For example, many other fab X-Men from the comics could (and should) have been introduced, like Gambit. Also, it would have been great to see the current X-Men's powers explored and developed more, like Rogue, Iceman, Collosus and Angel. Certainly, there is scope for a fourth movie, maybe with the current characters and certainly with the background characters from the first three AND new characters that are in the X-Men comics. I feel that the movie was left a little unfinished, a will-we, won't-we for a fourth movie.However, if X:4 is not to be, the director and the studio really should have known better! Having said all of that, it is a good movie, but it is just that.