I felt that the movie in, at least in my view… how do I describe it… oh yeah, right, ahem… Sucked big time.

Before I explain why, I will say what I liked about the movie…
As a big fan of movies, I appreciated the fact that Brett Ratner stepped up to the plate of a tall order. After former director Brian Singer ‘jumped ship’ from Fox Studios to WB to direct DC Comics very own Return of Superman, I anticipated that the feel of what made the last two X-men films fun, would go with him. He took what Singer started and brought it in a new direction, but still ‘played by the rules’.

As a former big fan of comics, especially of X-men comics, I really dug the shear brazen shock of the movie. Killing characters off completely unexpectedly while introducing new ones at the same time… that’s what made comic books FUN. Sure the sub-lined political effect is awesome, but seeing both goodguys loose and badguys win sometimes is so much cooler. Seeing on-screen my favorite characters come to FULL life still gave me chills (The Danger Room, Iceman, Magneto).

Now on to why I hated the movie so much.
The 1st half was amazing; they introduce the Danger room, they bring back characters, they introduce new characters. Then with such a great set up for a story, they drop the ball with a horrible use of cool characters, horrible climax, and to top it off they throw in so many cheesy pep talks, I was almost embarrassed when the audience was laughing and mocking the movie. The plot itself, while again, Ballzy, was just retarded.
It’s like a bad pro-wrestling storyline, the writers come up with a plot for the bad guys to give a really cool sounding threat against a hero, but when the bad guys actually do it, it isn’t very cool looking and is actually very weak and detracts all forms of potential threat the bad guys could ever have again.

I think because I was so much of a fan of the comics, I will admit I was a little bit biased. They changed characters (how hard is it to give Colossus a RUSSIAN ACCENT for crying out loud!?!?), they chose to use/introduce LAME characters (Even though he’s supposed to be Kid Omega, he’s pretty much a character named Quill, one of the dumbest marvel characters ever… I mean come on they could have used SO many other cool characters), they turned one of the greatest villains in history into a feeble old man (although the last few seconds before the credits redeemed it SLIGHTLY), and the ‘hidden’ last scene after the credits was the icing on the cheese cake.

I still encourage people to see it, but just know that it is the worst of the three. For a so called ‘last stand’, I can’t help but laugh.