I had interesting reactions to the first two X-Men movies that I'll briefly recap here. X-Men had a brilliant opening and closing scene, but everything in between was chaotic and confusing. X2 was much more coherent and easier to make sense of, but no really interesting moments (aside from having two musical theater people in it, but whatever).
This one falls somewhere in the middle. It's much cheesier and campier than the first two, falling into a few moments that made me giggle a little bit because even though they made sense in the movie, you can't really hear those lines and take them seriously. Overall, though, the action was kind of interesting (as much as I'm ever going to be interested in an action flick), and it definitely had that "let's work together as a team" effect that I always liked about the original comics. Overall, not a bad flick. Not sure I can compare it to the first two since I enjoyed it more than the first but less than the second, but in different ways. Ah, well. Too confusing to sort out now. 3.5 stars.
Also, some rants, briefly... *SPOILERS AHEAD* What the heck was with them killing off half of the X-Men? Did they just really, really want to finish the series? How many times is Jean going to come back and sacrifice herself (X2) or ask someone else to sacrifice her (this one)? *END OF SPOILERS*
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