X-Men Trilogy (2000 - 2006)

The X-Men Trilogy focuses on the rivalry between Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), more commonly known as Professor X, who runs a school where 'mutants' learn to control their powers, and Erik Lehnsherr, known as Magneto, an evil supervilan who wants 'mutants' to rule the world. Their rivalrly intensifies as they battle for the good of mankind.

Overall Review Score

5.5 out of 10

Review

The X-Men trilogy is a series of three films: X-Men and X-Men 2 / X2 directed by Bryan Singer and X-Men: The Last Standing directed by Brett Ratner. The X-Men trilogy starts off relatively well with the premise that the key to our evolution is the mutation of our cells, which has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. However, while the premise seems sound and the trilogy starts off with an all-star cast, including Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellen, cool special effects and breath taking acting. As the films progress all these elements begin to blur and will soon have the audience pointing out flaws in this trilogy. The acting seems forced, the special effects seem recycled, the continuality shots become laughable, the superpowers become more and more ridiculous, with every new introduction and the death of three main characters do little to excite the audience. Overall, while the original X-Men film (2000) was the best of the three and worth watching, X-Men 2 and X-Men: The Last Stand seriously let down the trilogy and made it feel like the studio, director and producers were interested in profits rather than good film making, which is probably why they did not notice they had misspelt the word ‘too’ in the caption “the not to distant future” in the final film.

Reviewer 1's score & comments:

X-Men (2000) Score: 7 out of 10

X-Men 2 / X2 (2003) Score: 5 out of 10

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) Score: 5 out of 10

X-Men Trilogy Overall Score: 6 out of 10

Comments:

Though the X-Men Trilogy started off strong its eventual ending was rather rushed and anti-climatic. The overall quality of the story and acting by the main cast decreases each film and even though more 'mutants' were introduced across the Trilogy they had little or no back story and did little more than distact from the already declining (X-Men 2) and eventually poor (X-Men: The Last Stand) storyline.

Reviewer 2's score & comments:

X-Men (2000) Score: 7 out of 10

X-Men 2 / X2 (2003) Score: 5 out of 10

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) Score: 4 out of 10

X-Men Trilogy Overall Score: 5 out of 10

Comments:

While the film trilogy starts off with a semi-plausible storyline, good acting and equally villainous characters as it descends into the later films, X-Men 2 / X-Men: The Last Stand, this trilogy becomes unwatchable. X-Men 2 is about ‘mutant’ registration, which can not be enforced, and a main character dying to save the others…but then X-Men: The Last Stand sees this character return only to kill two other main characters. While these events could have easily been entertaining or heart wrenching; they come across as monotone and leave the audience going ‘aww look at those pretty special effects’ rather than caring about the characters that have died, presumably through boredom.

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