X-Men 3: The Last Stand
So I watched X3 over the weekend. What are my impressions of it? Well let’s discuss what I expected first and then what I saw.
Before I saw X3, I knew it was gonna involve the Phoenix because of the suggestive ending scene in X2. Anyway, seeing all those previews on the commercials, I saw a lot of action and plenty of potential. I missed the chance to see in theaters so I waited til the DVD release.
So I got my hands on the movie recently and I saw the movie. So what did I see?
I saw a pretty bad movie. If you plan on reading the rest of this, there will be some plot spoils after this sentence. Anywho, I didn’t quite appreciate how they kinda killed some of the main characters. Cyclops ate it within minutes of the movie. Of course, I really don’t care too much about Cyclops in any of the three movies because he’s just some nobody actor in the mix of Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, Famke Jannsen, Ian McKellen, and Anna Paquin. Well Anna Paquin isn’t that huge, but at least it’s a recognizable name. Even Kelsey Grammer was in the movie. And Rebecca Romijn, though she’s all in blue.
Okay, I’m losing track. Anyway, after Cyclops is deemed dead simply because he was nowhere to be found, which I think is silly and just leaving hope that he’ll return, Jean is brought back to the mansion and then runs off immediately. She then ends up turning Xavier into tiny bits of matter. So at that point, you got Wolverine, Storm, a few “kid” X-men members, and Beast. Talk about cutting down on paying the cast. After Prof. X is killed, Jean doesn’t display much power after that. Magneto does some metal lifting. A bunch of extras die, and at the end of the movie, Wolverine kills Jean to seal off the movie. Then at the end you find out there may be a chance for an X4.. Oh god. Maybe if they had an actual X-Men writer do the story and left out Brett Ratner.
So, in conclusion, X3 sucked.