Why it is The "Last" Anyway ?!

Rating: 7/10 (31 January 2010)

I remember, in 2002, checking (Bryan Singer)'s page on IMDb, to read about futuristic pre-production projects like X Men 3 and X Men 4. Then, after 4 whole years I knew that (Singer) left, with nearly all the technical team of the first 2 X Men movies, to make Superman Returns. Furthermore, they made the third installment of X-Men already with another director, new technical team, and a pressing - incomprehensible - desire to terminate the X Men's cinematic series!
The first movie was astonishing. The second was more astonishing. Now this one got nothing to do with the level of its antecedents, with many not flaws, rather "crimes", along the way!
There are slight matters. For one is the number of the unused new characters; that can fill at least 2 movies. The thing about them is that they are all amazing. So their uniqueness deepened the bad irony of their swift appearance. Simply there is a certain descent when it comes to writing this time. Just listen to Magneto's lines to feel that well. Add to that things like the CGI that has been used to de-age (Patrick Stewart) and (Ian Mckellan) at the intro scene. It transformed them both into a silly joke!
Then, the sins. There are plenty of idiot events and stupid excuses. Sometimes the matters run crazily and in disgraceful way. For instance, Scott is murdered, suddenly and cheaply, just to assure that Jean became uncontrollable!!! Believe it or not, he didn't have the chance to leave respectfully after a good fight, or even a memorable scene. Let alone that we didn't have the chance to see that in the first place (just his glasses flying = he's murdered!). Then what about Jean's glorious returning back to life! That could be the easiest scene ever written at all; Scott, angrily, beams towards the sea, and Habra Kadabra she's flying out of the water alive, unharmed, and dry?! Welcome to X Men 3's silliest joke (or what was about to make the movie as one!). Annoying question: If she was alive in a cocoon, why she didn't come out earlier, especially while having all of these *recent* powers?!!
Speaking of which, what will surely make you frown is the fact that it's impossible for Jean to have all of these powers (did death give her that???!!!). And there is nothing mentioned about her schizophrenic disorder, or her appalling self-destructive alter ego, before. Actually, the scene of (Patrick Stewart) as professor X telling that to (Hugh Jackman) as Wolverine pushed me to pity some actors for what Hollywood forces them to do or say sometimes! Still the greatest moment of absurdity that this movie has is when Jean kills professor X; who's smiling so unintelligibly while his death?? It's needless to notice how many unintelligible things this movie is crowded with!
And why not some extra goofy stuff as well: Magneto lost his powers, then at the last shot he's moving a piece of metal?? Xavier is dead then, after the closing credits, he's talking through another person?? I believe the question marks aren't necessary since the movie makers, or accurately the producers, wanted to repair their wrongs, proving that there might be a sequel (or a TV spin-off), and lightening the load of sad nonsense that they made throughout the movie!
The main conflict was brilliant. I loved the hard choice that the script shows about giving up whatever distinguishes you between the people, to be normal among the very people; so is the gift a disease to be cured from, or something to live with and show off? Also the sequence of killing Xavier, the director got to be proud of that. But the problem is.. there wasn't more! In general, it doesn't utilize a lot of its powers, and deals awfully melodramatic with the others, to end up as poor, forced, and disappointing.
It's not X Men part 3. It's X Men: the murder and the weak swan song. It is clear that the producers wanted to wrap it up anyway, anyhow, so they axed the series by this hasty end, canceled part 4, and attended to the prequels after. However, I'm still asking, after experiencing a big success, why to make a last stand?! It's more like a rough "stand aside", and even not with a decent farewell that could be a fair climax for the previous 2 movies.
See Wolverine getting out to one of the school's balconies meaninglessly before the last shot; he got grouchy look up his face mostly for this blank finale of a movie!
..Even (Singer) didn't make a great Superman movie in the same year!