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X-Men 3

All in all this movie was kind of a let down really. Sure it had great special effects and it is always nice to see the actors who play the characters, but even their talent could not save this movie. The quality of writing, direction, acting, and sense of polish just wasn't in this movie as it has been in the previous two.

The story seemed contrived, rushed, and filled with gaps, pot holes, and even a black hole plot fubar called the phoenix.

Sure the phoenix was pure evil incarnate, but given the dilution that this movie has been filled too, no one character got more than about five minutes of combined screen time to explain fill them out.

The bad mutants were devolved into a bunch of leather, tattooed, punk rockers who did little for the movie but add to the overall dilution of the plot.

In the previous two movies you felt for the characters, most of them, because there was a lot of effort put into developing them. In this movie we have none of that. Hell the only characters that seemed worth caring about were only in the movie for about a total of five minutes each.

This movie is certainly darker than the previous two, but no where in league with them. On a scale of 5 stars, this one would only capture about 2. It was a sincere let down given the quality of its predecessors.