10 Biggest Missteps In Comic Book Movies

2. X-Men: The Last Stand - The Cure

X-Men should have been the first great comic book movie trilogy. Bryan Singer followed up the moderately low budget X-Men with a sequel that was bigger and better in every aspect. Not least, in its treatment of Jean Grey and what would become her eventual transformation into Dark Phoenix. The final shot of X-Men 2 is right up there with Batman Begins' Joker card in the sequel set up stakes and it seemed like everything was in place for a cracking third instalment.

Then Bryan Singer left and it all went a bit Pete Tong. Brett Ratner was brought in to replace him and proceeded to make a number of crucial missteps including killing Cyclops offscreen, introducing an unnecessary cure storyline and hiring Vinnie Jones then giving him a line. Okay, the last one could be forgiven if it weren't for everything else, but Ratner's decision to focus more on the cure and less on Dark Phoenix was a horribly misguided one making the whole movie feel like an exercise in wasted potential. The crime here is that the cure storyline was not needed at all. As previously mentioned, Bryan Singer had set up this threequel perfectly. The Dark Phoenix saga has always been a fan favourite and there is more than enough material there to fill an entire movie so why even introduce the cure in the first place? It is a question that still puzzles me to this day and I can only wonder what might have been if Singer had stuck around. As it is, we have a flawed, rushed, moderately entertaining X-Men movie, instead of the mind-blowing end to the trilogy that was so deliciously teased at the end of X2.