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Wag
 
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Between the deaths and the resurrections it was running more or less mediochre until the last few seconds of the last scene and the extra scene. Magneto's final scene was almost perfect - then the last few seconds, undermined the entirety of the scene, the development of the character and purpose of the entire conflict. A gratuity that ransacked an already depleted film. Followed by a (tediously foreshadowed) resurrection. Why won't these freaks just fucking die?
Gripes and plus points:
* I enjoyed the way people just turned into smudges of carbon around Phoenix
* It pleased me that the family hiding in the car were probably toasted and turned into a flaming kinetic harpoon in a feat of 11/9 inspired dual-purpose application
* The film provides a justification for the Nazi holocaust (if some people actually are an innate risk to all other humans, then some pretty broad purges are justified if it weeds out one or two world-destroying mutants - why didn't they just shoot/gas him?)
* Was it really necessary to use four needles on Magneto? Why not use three, pocket one and jab Jean Gray with it? I suppose there's only one sure way to deal with inconvenient exes.
* Magneto was bang on the money - the X-men were complete and utter traitors to their own kind - seemingly happy to slaughter hundreds of them on the side of humans armed with anti-mutant darts (I'd be disappointed if they hadn't received orders to shoot the survivors "accidentally").
* Surely Magneto should be an ardent Zionist working with Mosad?
* I'm disappointed by all the frivolous U-turns - your freak son saves your life - brilliant, hug him close while you save his life in return with a sneaky injection. Mutants cause lots of problems, kill lots of people, resolution only through the slaughter of lots of mutants. Why is this grounds for elevating your token mutant to a largely non-mutant (by definition) America at the UN? Or is that a subtle shunt sideways preceding an assassination which they can blame on some other host country?
* Unless all the mutants are completely sterile, any human collaborating is either a complete traitor or doing it with the intention of whittling down their numbers
* Gravely disappointed that the Ice-boy didn't dump Rogue on the spot for not being a mutant any more (then again, perhaps there's more pathos in doing her just once to find out what the cattle feel like). Ditto, saddened that Magneto didn't have the compassion to snap Mystique's neck - surely he owed her that much?
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I must say I rather enjoyed it, though a few things irked me. Nightcrawler simply not being there (I presume the actor wasn't up for it), rogues storyline being totally pointless, the fact the beast seemed cooler than wolverine in the fights, and the total underuse of archangel.
Obviously some ropey script bits, but hey, it's an action film.
Ian: WTF? I can understand kinda what you are sayign about the whole portrayal of women thing, but surely pheonix is a slightly different case! it's not oooo, shut up stupid women, it's something trying to kill everyone.
As for magneto moving the chess piece, i'm pretty sure he doesnt. All you see is his hand hover over the piece, and the scene cuts.
If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.
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| Having watched the ending at least 20 times (I work as an usher in a cinema so there was no way to avoid it) the chess piece does move on its own, only a little but it does. I also agree with the complaints about the ropey plot holes, the underuse of good characters and the crap way they chose to end it all.
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It felt like to many storylines, were cramped into a fairly short film. The film seemed disjointed. In the end the last stand of the xmen, failed to excite me in anyway. Sadly another film I came away wanting two hours of my life back, which was a crying shame as the first two were spot on. 
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Initiate
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A possible explanation for them to use four needles on Magneto is that he's so damned powerful and it still turns out not to have been enough. Or maybe he's so obsessed with his own status as a mutant he manages to will himself through it taking as long as he needs to.
Unfortunately, there are just too many plot holes for it to work well as a film. A big error is that on seeing Wolverine (whom we all know he despises) why not rip out the Adamantium as we all know he can ( and in the comic continuity, once did).
Assessment, Weakest of the three films by far.
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| I recon 4 if they do the 4th film will be pretty rubbish, as they have pretty much eliminated all of the decent super villans, and unless they use some really cheesy plot devices, they may end up having to use the borther hood of evil mutants. then there is always Galactus and his pet the silver surfer there ready to eat the world and be generally unpleasant. Thought X3 was a bit cack, the phoenix plot just pissed me off, why not just make the whole film about the phoenix or bin that plot line altogether, oh and the fact that the crappy evil mutants looked like extras from any vampire film you can name, and their powers where awfull, for example suckerpad boy, or annoying girl who goes on about class 4 and class 5 powers like where supposed to know what she's on about
____________________________________ As the old robot saying goes "does not compute"
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