The summer movie season has begun. Another season of remakes and sequels that could hardly entertain anyone with a functioning brain. This season has taken a change for the better with films like “Mission Impossible: III” giving the audience more character with the action; the release of “X-Men III” last week continues this trend.

The third film begins with the X-Men dealing with the fallout of a recently developed cure for their mutant abilities and the apparent resurrection of Jean Grey played by Famke Janssen.

I feel the first two films may have just as well been called “Wolverine” because he seemed to be the only character that mattered. The third one, I believe, did a much better job of showing that it was called X-Men. Halle Berry as Storm does an admirable job of portraying her as a natural leader and a mutant to be feared.

Many characters that were overlooked in the first two films finally get a chance to expand their characters. Rogue, played by Anna Paquin, is used as a microcosm about how the mutant community is dealing with the bombshell that is the cure. Is it better to remain unique but hated or conform to what society can handle?

The problem, I think, most critics have with the movie is that too much information is on the screen. In reality, all the film centers around is the cure and how the mutants have to deal with it.

The third film also delivers the action from the comic books that the first two films lacked considerably. The climatic battle between Magneto’s army and the X-Men is the kind of fight a comic book fan dreams of seeing in a movie.

The biggest drawback for this movie is mutant overload. You have the standard mutants from the films like Wolverine and Magneto; and mutants new to the film series like Beast, Juggernaut, Angel, and Colossus being crammed into a movie that is only an hour and forty-four minutes long; that is way too many mutants to introduce in that amount of time. But the movie resolves this in a way by killing off or curing more main characters than I could have thought possible. The deaths come as a good surprise to keep the audience on their feet and show that anyone could die in this film and nobody is safe from the grim reaper or the cure.

Despite the small problems that exist, I feel the film is well written, has solid performances from the actors and features some of the best action from a summer movie so far.