Dissapointing - X-Men: The Last Stand Reviews

***Spoilers so dont read if you haven't seen the movie*** Xmen3: The Last Stand is possibly one of the most dissapointing movies i have ever seen. I was excited to see that the Phoenix saga was going to be a big factor for the movie based on the ending of X2. The direction that was taken though clearly did not stay anywhere near what the comics had established. 10 minutes into the movie the undisputed leader of the Xmen, Cyclops, is killed. How can u do this. Cyclops is one of the most important of all the xmen. This is where things begin to decline. I know that the movie couldn't use the actual way that Jean Grey becomes Phoenix, but the way the movie decribes it, it seems that Phoenix is this completely evil prescense that shows no remorse nor cares about anything which is completely not true. The Phoenix is not completely evil in fact, it stays in a constant battle between good and evil. Things take a complete nose dive to oblivion when Jean Grey in all her rage kills Professor X. At this point in time i cannot imagine how Stan Lee didn't object to this. From here on out the movie strays further and further from the Marvel comics which lead to even more dissapointment. Another thing that i didn't like was that they introduced new mutants but they didn't really develop the characters enough. It was cool to see the new mutants and their powers but there was no story to them. They were just there for some battles and then they died. There could have been a few more scenes with Angel, other than the 3 he was in. If the attempt to depict the Phoenix saga was already bad enough, i could not believe the way Juggernaut was depicted. The scene where the Xmen first enounter Juggernaut had the makings for much disaster. Here is professor X with just Wolverine and Storm walking up to Juggernaut. And nothing happens. I guess he no longer is professor x's half brother and wishes to kill him. so the having juggernaut is actually quite dissapointing minus one key phrase. There is much more that makes this movie dissapointing with the way Rouge is depicted, how Collossus and Kitty are now a main members but there is no development to their characters, and the unecessary fight scenes. The one bright note was Ian McKellen's portrayal of Magneto. He continued to do a great job of showing how Magneto depises humans for the treatments of mutants everywhere. This could have been a good movie had more time been put into it to develop the story in a way that was closer to the comics. If there is a 4th movie which was left open with the end, i hope that the movie is taken into a darker direction.