Warning: Major Spoilers ahead
I HATED HATED HATED it.
From the very beginning everyone had different personalities. Xavier was suddenly an ---sufferer of cranial-rectal-inversion---, e.g., "I don't have to explain myself . . . Least of all to you!".
And then the basic idea for the movie was, "Here's what we'll do . . . we'll take all the best characters and kill them in the first 15 minutes. Then we'll introduce so many new characters that it's impossiible to give them more than about 15 minutes each of screen time.
It was retarded. I couldn't comprehend how I was supposed to be cheering for the X-Men in this film. They were DEFENDING and FIGHTING ALONG SIDE the people who had a weaponized "cure" that was obviously meant for them (remember, the school was already raided by the government in the last movie). The fact that it was weaponized proved beyond any doubt that Magneto was absolutely correct in his assumptions about the humans' intentions. And then, in a fit of inexcusable lack of decency the X-Men actually used this weapon on Magneto (though why it never occurred to Wolverine to use it on Jean instead of his claws at the end is a mystery).
Minor complaints include:
- Juggernaut is not a mutant. That little bald kid would have no effect on him. IIRC he found some space crystal that makes him strong and invincible (except for his head, hence the helmet). He doesn't have an X gene.
- Okay, so close proximity to the kid suppresses mutant powers so Beast's hand quit being blue when he shook the kid's hand. But, presumably his power isn't magically appearing hair. Why did the fur on his arm just suddenly reappear (or disappear, for that matter) after walking away from? Presumably, in spite of his mutant powers, his hair grows.
- What in the name of god was holding the Golden Gate Bridge up once it was connecting the mainland to Alcatraz? It no longer had any cables or pilings in the ocean floor. It was just a single stretch of concrete and steel stretching across the bay.
- Why was it broad daylight when Magneto dropped the bridge on the guard tower on the Alcatraz island, but in the next instant the middle of the night?
- Why was Angel (I thought his name was Arcangel) even in the movie?
List of characters killed in the movie:
- Cyclops
- Xavier
- Jean Grey
- Magneto
- Mystique
- Rogue
- Nightcrawler (not dead, but inexplicably absent and treated as though he never existed)
Here's an interesting bit. Someone told me that if you sit all the way through the credits it is suggested that only Xavier's body was destroyed and that his mind is now in another body. This jives with his first scene where he's discussing with his students the ethicality of transferring a terminally ill person's brain into the body of a person with no capability for consious thought.
At first I was wondering how in the name of god Brett Ratner had got Warner Bros. (or is it Fox?) to greenlight a script where he was going to destroy so many of their lucrative properties. But then it occurred to me that everybody's three-movie contracts are now up. Now, to make X-men 4 you have a huge ensemble of actors with all kinds of leverage. Hugh Jackman can say, "Sure, I'll be in X-Men 4, but not for less than $25 mil.." Patrick Steward, Famke Janssen, Halle Berry, the Cyclops guy, Ian McKellen, Rebecca Stamos, etc. etc. all have tons of leverage to command sallaries that would make the movie impossible from a financial standpoint. I think some lame-ass bean counters at the studio actually wanted characters killed off so that when they made the next movie fans wouldn't be screaming bloody murder that they either left important characters out or had someone else play the role. And the stunt with Xavier means that they can even keep his character without having to pay top dollar to Patrick Stewart to get him to reprise his role.
This is, of course, a retarded move that basically ensures that the franchise is going to go even further downhill than The Last Stand has already taken it. Why so many businessmen are unable to see that in the long-term it is not profitable to rape your properties of their value by selling out for the short-term buck is beyond me. You see it all the time with basically everything, from Tomb Raider videogames to the Batman movie franchise (both of which have been redeemed by their most recent iterations). But I digress . . .
To make a long story short, this movie sucked ass.
edit: I notice that some of the points I made have already been mentioned above....sorry for redundencies
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