X3 isn’t showing until the 26th in the US, so this may spoil the movie for a handful of my non-local readers. (On the other hand … so what?)
* This review originally posted on FilmCrowd.com. Check the X3 page here.
Mildly entertaining, but certainly not the way I was hoping they would end the franchise (considering the title of this movie, an X-men IV seems a bit self-indulgent … although a Wolverine the Movie seems to already be in the works).
Good stuff about this movie:
- Bobby Drake finally ices up. Wow, it took 3 movies for him to figure out how to do that. Still no ice-slides though.
- Madrox the multiple man actually has a scene! They neglected to show the little gestures he has to make in order to create his multiples, so that kinda sucked.
- Professor X goes splat. Best scene in the entire trilogy, imho.
And the Bad Stuff:
- What exactly was the point of the whole Iceman/Rogue/Shadowcat love triangle? Apart from the team being one-person short during the big finale, I mean. What a total waste of screen time that was.
- And what was the point of bringing an entire army of low-level — and weirdly enough, asian, black or latino — mutants to storm the Worthington facility? Magneto went to all the trouble of convincing Jean to come along and yet he never once thought to just ask her to pull Leech out of there. For that matter, he had a huge-ass suspension bridge behind him; he could have simply roped up all the soldiers and done it himself. (And, in the back of my mind, I was thinking, why didn’t he just drop an oil tanker over the whole facility and have Pyro go nuts?)
- Do they REALLY have to have extreme-closeups of Storm’s eyes going white, every single time she controls the weather? We get it already.
- Does it bother anyone else that Wolverine was probably responsible for more mutant deaths in one movie, than all of the evil government agencies combined?
Overall, this third (and hopefully final) installment was probably the weakest in the trilogy, and I have to say I’m fairly disappointed. And the music was terrible! Where’s Danny Elfman when you need him?