Rating of
1/4
Terrible sequel
Ichabod Crane - wrote on 04/26/08
The worst of the three x-men movies easily. The are several problems within it. The first is the story, Both stories dark phoenix and a cure have potential but they are poorly realized. Neither story is given the attention needed for a good story, they do not interact well and they both stay oddly separated. The stories only interact once and it does not really accomplish anything. It basically goes heres this part, oh wait now back to the other. It is very poorly done. Another problem here is like many bad sequels there are too many characters. This causes many big characters in the comics to be thrown away, and it also causes many characters to have too little screen time. Also in an attempt to make it an ending I guess. They kill off many characters, in many poor ways. There is not one death of the known characters that feels well done or correct in anyway. The film also kills other characters by the cure, which equally throws away many characters poorly. One more note Magneto is far too powerful compared to the other films in the series. But I suppose its good magneto did not fully realize his power because I personally would have used the golden gate bridge to just destroy the apparently metal less facility rather than just using it as a bridge.
The acting is fine, but there is inherit miscasting in many of the smaller roles.
Now the most surprising thing about x-men 3's poor quality is in the technical aspects. The flying looks so fake and bad, that it is a little embarrassing since you know they were on wires. The one technical error I really could not stand was when Magneto and his men go to attack the facility it is daylight, but when they walk on the island it is pitch black. I know they obviously went to a stage, but could they not at least thrown in a line like, put a cloud over it Storm. Some of the fights scenes are okay but others are downright boring such as Ice man versus Pyro, they shoot their beams at each other until one over powers the other that is the best they could do? One last special effect that is just annoying is how dark phoenix kills people. She glitters them away wow, that is something alright.
I do not recommend this to anyone I myself like the x-men comics, but I also am not looking at it from that perspective either. It is not good for a fan of the comics or a fan of the movies.
