Just caught the 7:15 PM showing at my former place of employment, Regal Cinemas Hunt Valley. It was entertaining in its roller coaster ride way, but not quite as smooth or slick as the first two - and I didn't even enjoy them much, despite the fact that they are undoubtedly the GOOD ones in the franchise. Though I knew his death was coming - I even signed an on line petition not to have him killed foolishly hoping he could be saved - I was still seriously pissed that they killed Cyclops. He was always my favorite X-Men character along with Beast and Colossus, but they treated him like crap in the first two movies, and they treated him like crap here. I guess it was partly because the actor playing him James Marsden got caught up in former X-Men director Bryan Singer's misbegotten Superman Returns - which looks like crap in both promotional pictures and in the trailers.

I officially hate Wolverine/Logan now. I didn't always hate him, but I've been hating him since the first film. The way they kept screwing the other X-Men characters over in favor of Wolverine, most notably Cyclops, the God Damn FIELD LEADER of the X-Men for crying out loud, always angered me. It never felt like an ensemble piece, which is what the X-Men are supposed to be.

On the bright side, I got to see Beast, that was cool. And there was more Colossus, which was cool even though he didn't get a lot of screen time. Plus Ellen Page as Kitty Pryde; the best part of the movie was watching her run around in the leather jumpsuit (she was born in 1987 so she is in fact legal). No wait, that was the 2nd best part. Seeing Mystique/Raven Darkholme lying naked on the ground after being "cured" of her mutancy was the best part of the film, and the only reason I'll buy the DVD.