That character, though developed throughout the first two X-Men films, has been relegated to a minuscule and ineffectual sub plot in this third installment. Don’t concern yourself with Oscar winner Anna Paquin or her character of Rogue either. Where’s Cyclops you ask? Don’t worry, we’ll get to him.
This new team consists of Beast, Iceman, Shadowcat, Colossus and Wolverine. Storm, on the other hand, is given a lot more screen time and dialogue than in the previous X-Men films, as was part of Berry’s contract I believe, and slides into the eventual leadership role (also part of her contract) of the new X-Men team easily.
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I won’t get into the whole Phoenix Saga and how Grey’s mind has been splintered into two halves for her own protection as well as everyone else’s (actually explained well in the film) but summing up the whole Saga in a 104 minute movie is an absolute travesty and a shame. The only characters given any development in X-Men 3 are Famke Janssen’s Jean Grey/Phoenix and Halle Berry’s Storm/Ororo Munroe.
If Bryan Singer hadn’t defected with his apt writing team of Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris and gone over to Warner Brothers to write and direct the upcoming Superman Returns, X-Men 3’s cohesion issues, character histories (with their accompanying developments) would have been more in tune with their comic book brethren, helping to fully round the characters from the first two movies. Was it on purpose in X-Men 3 or was the production of the film rushed like I’ve read so that 20 th Century Fox could beat Singer’s Superman into the theaters? The answers obvious. The problem with this occurrence is that those effects were meant to look cheesy, a little off and funny, all at the same time. With a production budget of $210 Million, only a skilled CPA could tell you where all of that money went since a third to half of the special effects are of the quality of those found in Shaolin Soccer and Kung-Fu Hustle. One has to wonder though if these instances would have encompassed all of X-Men 3 and not simply have been brief flashes of a great film, if Bryan Singer had been behind the camera. Young Warren Worthington III and the scene with the knives and his wings, the first ten minutes of the film involving a teenage Jean Grey and an unparalyzed Professor Xavier, Mystique’s integration scene, where the non-comic book reader learns her real name or as she refers to it, her slave name and a few other scenes. X-Men 3 is the amalgamation of the first two superior X-Men films and bits and pieces of other storylines and characters from the Marvel Universal thrown together to create a substanceless action extravaganza.ĭo not be persuaded by my words from seeing this summer movie, however, because there are bits of brilliance throughout the film.
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