The following post contains spoilers, so wait til you’ve seen the movie, as to not spoil it for yourself…
As the title suggests, this is the last of the X-Men trilogy, but if you’ve seen, you know they just have to put in hints for a sequel, in case some studio coughs up the cash later on down the line. My overall impression of the movie was … it made me sad. Magneto in the park, playing chess by himself?! That was so sad! I told Chris that it was like Geri’s Game, but not funny. Anyway. I thought there was a lot of pointless death and the dark Phoenix thing was “eh.” It sounded really cool at the end of X Men 2, but what happened in this one that was so cool? Jean Grey didn’t learn how to control herself, and she randomly tried to kill five or so people. Hmph. Cyclops showed up for about five seconds, and the other more seasoned X-Men were kind of pushed aside for the younger crowd. And, Mystique as a human? That is so unexciting. Angel had some potential, but really, character development was at an all time low.
What I also found kind of silly was all this talk about the “class 3″ versus “class 5″ mutants. I’ve never read the comics, but on the big screen it sounded hilarious. Sort of like a role playing game.
Did I mention a lot of meaningless death happened?
Overall, this is what one would expect from a summer blockbuster. There was one glitch in the special effects — when Magneto is moving the Golden Gate Bridge (he couldn’t find a better way?) it went from dusk to pitch-black-night in roughly 5 seconds. Anyway, I’ll have to say this makes me look forward to what Bryan Singer decided to work on instead of X-Men 3 — Superman Returns. My summer lineup has been rather disappointing thus far, and I don’t have high hopes for the Da Vinci code. The only saving grace for next month will be Cars. Pixar, don’t let me down.
yes, i agree with that whole meaningless death part. that wasn’t worth my $$$, especially since i’m a student with no $$$ in the first place. no The Jiff to buy p-corn. heh.
i agree. i know i’m going to sound dumb, but i read a lot of x-men growing up and the movie did some assanine things to the comics. now, there was great action and some cool dialogue (in comic book style, i mean), but meaningless death and too much deviation from the story. lata!