Movie Review: X-Men 3

I actually liked the first two, and the third installment of X-Men made me angry just watching it! Damn you, Brett Ratner for casting a black cloud over the X-Men series! The story could have had the potential to be something extraordinary. Even the cartoon series of X-Men had a better plotline than this movie! I realize that most literary interpretations have to condense and compress the story into a two-hour movie - point taken, but this movie just didn’t work for me. This was a very half-ass made movie!

It was nice to see more of Hale Berry’s character and her story in this movie, but they could have written a better story for Phoenix/Jean’s character. One of the biggest grudges I have against X-Men 3 was the random mutant characters that would be featured for only 2 minutes! I can just imagine the production meeting for this movie: ‘Oh, lets be pointless and have as many mutants as possible in this movie, and not give them any importance to the plot whatsoever!’

I only have one positive comment on this movie and that was Hugh Jackman’s role as Wolverine. That’s it!
My $5.50 for my movie ticket could have been better spent. I thought of a few things I could have bought with that money while I was watching X-Men 3:

• A Diatonic Harmonica (in the key of C) at Fritz’s Music Store.
• 550 pieces of penny candy (preferably the sour watermelon and Swedish fish) at the J&L Market.
• 10 Apple Pies from McDonalds
• Five taxable items at the Dollar Tree

There was no buildup to the end of X-Men 3. Basically, for two hours, the excitement in this movie was like a pulse line for a dead person! I was not satisfied when I came out of the movie theatre – actually, I was more agitated to be more specific. ARGH!!!