Review – X-Men 3

After the first two, I was actually looking forward to this one. And to put it bluntly, I was disappointed. I liked the previous installments at least in part because of the rare presence of character development in the action genre. However, that element was almost completely absent this time around. The new characters are almost all villains. Normally that would be great, but this crop is a pack of duds. Rather than focus on characters, this production devotes most of its screen time to special effects – naturally – and to sustaining a plot that serves primarily to kill off (or otherwise do away with) as many of the series regulars as possible within the limits of what audiences are likely to put up with. They’re calling this the “last battle,” and though movie-goers have seen words like that used deceptively in the past, this time around the producers appear to be serious. Overall this wasn’t a complete waste of a couple of hours, but it was inferior to its predecessors. Mildly amusing