Too Many Liberties

Rating: 7/10 (30 May 2006)

I liked the overall feel of the movie and still enjoyed myself if for no other reason than I have been enjoying the fact that people are taking comic-books seriously as a venue for movie material(sorry for the incredibly long run-on sentence there).The stories are already there and waiting for someone to use them.
That having been said this last X-Men movie took amazing artistic license with the characters which didn't need to be taken. Most of the liberties can be understood and even agreed with (ie Peter Rasputin/Colussus not actually being from Russia, Arch-Angel not being an X-Man already along with Iceman, Rogue, Colussus, Siryn, Psylocke, and Nightcrawler, and the Pheonix not actually being a malevolent being from an alien race but simply a manifestation of Jean Grey's Id). But killing off central characters who never die in the comics except in the weird post-apocalyptic future that Bishop inhabits and then only Gambit is alive. Gambit, by the way, one of the central X-men and not in the movies at all except a brief passing of his name on the registered mutants list in the second movie. But making the Juggernaught a mutant!? That friggin' crystal in his helmet is the only way that he transforms from Chris Marko, wimpy half/brother of Charles Xavier to the Juggernaught. Anyways...enough whining from me.
And by the way, yes i realize they can bring all the people back from "the dead". Since they apparently already did that with Prof. X and you never actually see Scott die so presumably he may not be dead or he may be stuck in the Astral Plane. Jean Grey could also come back to life surviving just as Charles did or they decide that Logan killed her but only killed the Pheonix and they were able to save her body and Jean Grey is still alive.