Witness the greatest let down in movie history.

Rating: 1/10 (26 May 2006)

I honestly don't know where to start with this movie. After being in love with the first two movies, reading the comics in the past few years, and reading as much history as there was with the universe of X-Men, I can honestly say this movie sucked. It was a disaster. Leaving out spoilers, it felt like the movie was thrown together at the last minute. (Thank you Brain Singer for leaving X-Men high and dry so they would be stuck without a solid director for the better half of two years and also taking with you most of the production staff, including composer and Editor John Ottman, cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel, writers Mike Dougherty and Dan Harris, and production designer Guy Dyas. Everyone Stop blaiming Brett Ratner! By the time Ratner had a chance to clean up the mess that was made by Singer's sudden leaving. "Life gives you lemons, make lemonaid." Well Singer left Ratner crap, so guess what happened?) There was no character development at all. It didn't even seem like we were watching the same cast of characters as the previous two movies. The plot is not a bad plot is not a bad plot. The story wouldn't be so bad if it was in a comic book. There are several story lines going on today in the X-Men Comic 'vers. This could be okay as on of them, but is terrible tried as a Blockbuster movie. I sat there almost the whole time of the movie thinking I was about to wake up from this nightmare at any moment. The dialogue is not bad either accepted that since it does not even seem like this movie could be connected to the first two, you can't take it seriously. You can't take it to heart because even though your brain is witnessing the biggest let down in movie history, you heart is fighting for the chance that what you're watching isn't happening. There are some good things to this movie, but all those good things simply come from see our favorite characters using there powers in key ways that we remember from the comics. If you're going to so something, do it right or don't do it at all. I hear that Singer's Superman Returns picks up the story of Superman after Superman II and just acts like the fallowing films never happened. I can only hope that maybe someday X-Men will get the same treatment.
WARNING!!!! SPOILERS BELOW!!!!! This is a list of the major happenings that add to the pile of what made this movie not work.
Cyclops, who was robed of team leader in X2, had less then ten minutes of screen time before being needlessly killed off by Phoenix.
Mystique looses her powers.
Xavier is needlessly killed by Phoenix.
Stop me if I'm wrong but last time I checked, Multiple Man was a good guy.
Angel has maybe ten minutes of screen time at best.
Magneto looses his powers.
Rogue decides to take the cure and in doing so she looses her powers and we loose the chance to see her have the super human strength and flight she had in the comics.
Actual footage of Colossus adds up to him being there only so we can see him throw Wolverine.
Kitty Pryde's character seems there only to create tension between Rogue and Iceman.