Movie Review: X3 - The Last Stand

This movie sucked.




I could leave it at that, but, I'll explain, since I do so enjoy a good vent.
Clearly this movie changed hands after the second movie. I already knew there was controversy surrounding which characters would make an appearance, and who would play them, but, come on.
Here are some of my many issues:
The young kids are too young. So young that it's clear the target audience was young teens, as is the case with all movies pertaining to the supernatural. Except, of course, that the X-Men comic and story and fan base is at least as old and typically much older than myself, who is 5 years out of being a teen. For Christ's sake, you can drop a character reference without completely destroying them. How hard is it to not make all the characters look like they're members of Blink182? Some of these mutants are clearly adults in the actual stories.

Juggernaut is NOT a mutant. He was given his power through a completely different source. So being near mutant blocky guy isn't gonna do anything. Additionally, Xavier wheeling past Juggernaut without so much as a word isn't gonna happen, they're BROTHERS. Not only that, but Juggernaut HATES Xavier. The helmet isn't there for protection, it's the same as Magneto's.

Rogue doesn't love Wolverine. She loves gambit, who they dropped from the script because of casting issues. Additionally, Wolverine doesn't love Jean Grey.
Additionally, Rogue is from Alabama. Where's her accent? And why can't she fly?
Storm and Beast kinda like one another. But you couldn't tell in the movie.

Why is Magneto wearing his helmet after Xavier dies? And OMGWTFBBQ. Xavier dies? Way to kill Cyclops within ten minutes of the start of the movie. Guess he didn't really wanna be in it. Way to kill Jean. Way to kill this that and the other guy.

Mental blocks? Alternate ego? The fuck. The Pheonix is a psychic entity that possessed Jean from another galaxy and was the start of a saga that transcended the planet Earth, and delved into the history of Cyclops' family history.

Nice Morlocks though, did a good job there, except that Marrow is a woman who has the power to manifest bone weapons, not some jobber working the guard in a Brotherhood camp. Additionally, the Morlocks live in the sewers beneath NYC.

Level 5 mutants? WTFWTFWTF. This is my other clear evidence that this movie was taken out of the hands of intelligent individuals and entrusted to morons who feel the need to explain everything within the movie, and negate the need to actually know anything at all about the story itself. And they didn't need to explain it at all. Level 5? This is all too reminiscent of the Midichlorion scandal from Star Wars, like somehow the general public needed a logical explanation other than "It's just magic, ok?"

And then there's the whole, you basically just mangled everything I ever enjoyed about the X-Men part. This movie was better left unmade.