For starters, the intro. We have the title and a little voice over, and then we see the scene from Jeans childhood (great start!). Then we go back to the intro with music and credits and what-not. I wasn’t too fond of that way of doing it.

As for Mystique attacking the senator before his run-in with Jean in the debate…why? Why not introduce the character in the debate scene and then have him being tsken away? It would give it all some more substance, and follow better on each other…to my mind.

Those sliding doors to signal change of scenes are great…but then you start using fades. But why?

Some deleted scenes to add character development…but other scenes are gone that take away from the same thing…it must be hard to keep it all together in one movie, but I don’t agree with the choice of scenes at all times.

There are deleted scenes that look different than the rest of the movie. There are these audio glitches that you have mentioned yourself. I’d say that these are not that minor, even if they are not many. But the fact that there are video AND audio issues with this release that I watched makes me wonder how it could get such a high rating. But, yeah, maybe I’m missing something.

The third movie….does not follow that well on the others. It really feels like a new story, with a new major character to top it off (Beast). And that talk about “classes” of power for mutants! Ugh! Remove please? It is absent in the earlier movies…don’t know why they had to start talking about that.

Beyond this there is some solid editing of most parts, and the story works generally well.

5 / 10

8.5/10!

Do you plan on incorporating X-Men Origins: Wolverine into the next edit?

wow! great watch! there are some technical issues still present (audio glitches, a few odd transitions…) but otherwise a great way to experience the xmen saga.

creativity in editing is very enjoyable and now we have a brand new xmen!

i agree completely with boon’s review, too. 8/10 looking forward to a v4?

As to technical aspects, which as I often state, I am not adept at and therefore not attuned to some types of errors, I can’t complain. I had to adjust the volume a few times due to fluctuations, but for the most part the audio seemed only slightly below the quality on my DVDs. If there were any hard cuts in the video, they were not bothersome enough that I remember (I watched it two days ago, so it’s still pretty fresh). Bear in mind that I tend to be a lot more lenient for these sorts of things than with the plot/entertainment part.

If you have the spare time, or you’re like me and you can sometimes watch movies while you do your boring job, you HAVE to pick this one up (assuming you own the trilogy already, of course).

X-Men’s editing was brilliant except for some minor details. “I’ll have Jean braid your hair” was a good line, and it’s absence is missed, but Rogue’s stripe appears out of nowhere. From what I can tell, she got it from absorbing Wolverine. Just a few quick flashes of the Ellis Island sequence would have improved that scene, just to emphasize the point a little more.

X2 was the weakest job, I felt. Your goal of a darker world is well-realized, but the X-Men were not completely bleak, and some overzealous editing cuts out much of the humor that made the original film great. A lot of that humor came from the interactions of the younger X-Men during the mansion attack and the scenes at Bobby’s house, both of which, I felt, should have remained more or less intact, and once again the loss of one of the funnier lines of the movie proved detrimental. “No beer?” “This is a school.”

X-Men: The Last Stand fared much, much, much better thanks to your cuts, but with the re-insertion of a few scenes, it could be better. The Danger Room sequence, as stupid as it may have been at times, was some of the only true character moments in the film, and the loss of the Bobby/Rogue/Kitty triangle renders Rogue’s decision to seek the cure makes more sense. Angel’s formal introduction with his father trying to cure him, and his subsequent escape could be thrown back in, just to show the nasty side of Worthington, and so his appearance at the end wouldn’t be as awkward.

All in all, I was surprised that I missed the younger X-Men plots as much as I did, but as I said, reintegrating several scenes, and less editing of several included would make for a much better edit. One that could be labelled the quintessential X-Men cinematic experience. As it stands, a solid 8.5/10

Great work and thank you for your efforts.

8/10.

I was hesitant to get the Trilogy as well but I have changed my mind, since I was actually left wanting more

The blending of films #1 and #2 is often ingenious – you’ve paid maximum respect to storytelling and technically the editing is wonderful.

It’s a shame that film #3 by comparison has glaring weaknesses in its script (though a good story idea) and in its overblown CGI sillyness. It’s clearly the work of a different director, too, but overall I thought you made a pretty good fist of trying to integrate a lousy 3rd movie into films #1 and #2.

Thanks for your efforts Wraith.

8/10 from me.

review by boon23

Prologue:
It is the length of the movie with 192 minutes that kept me a long time from watching this, even though I promised Wraith to do it a long time ago. Now finally my bad conscience was strong enough to launch it and it took me 3 sessions to finish it, not because I was not entertained, but because I hardly ever have over 3h to spend for a movie.
The project itself was always fascinating to me, as it was such a huge undertaking to really turn the 3 X-Men movies into one consisting story. I watched an hour of the first ever release of this (which is another reason why I put it on hold for so long – and there were quite some inconsistencies, but the potential was already there for a great movie.
And with this probably final release I started again. It’s X-Men time.

As for all my reviews: this is just my personal opinion of this fanedit. I cannot tell anybody else, if he or she will experience it in the same way or the opposite. So my review is not objective and does not reflect the opinion of fanedit.org.

!!!!This review contains heavy spoilers!!!

The edit:
From the very beginning it is perfectly clear that this is not just all X-Men movies united to one. The plot jumps from 1 to 2 and back and forth to really tell one story about the coming war between mutants and humans and that’s about all this fanedit is about. There are hardly any sidetracks and the plot develops to the peak in the finale with quite a huge climax with the finale of X-Men 2.
What wraith did with the 3 movies is incredible. The fanedit has a completely new flow to it and so many well known scenes are presented in a truly different context. Wraith had an idea and he consequently put it to life with a lot of skill. So much effort went into this project and it really shows, starting with a great plot, very good edits and audio cuts. It really has the feel of ONE movie. And it’s a great one.
It isn’t perfect though. At various points scenes are referred to that have not been included, when for example Rogue says she saved Wolverine’s life, when in fact she did nothing but watch in this movie. There is a Jean Grey scene, where she says she had lost control before, but nothing happened in the fanedit. Also the quality of the scenes varies, because some of the included deleted scenes were of lower quality.
Then there are some things about the plot that should be mentioned: The capture of Magneto is not shown and it is kind of missed. He suddenly is imprisoned and the first Xavier visit feels a bit out of place. I also had my difficulties believing that the war plans of the Magneto group were continuing without him. The X-Men 3 part felt a bit too long, especially the final fight.
However, it is the best version of X-Men I have ever seen – and I mean that for all 3 of them, especially the third one, which really gets a great improvement by the huge amount of cut scenes. For such a huge project I cannot say much else but: Bravo.
editing: 9 of 10,
entertainment: 8 of 10

Image and video quality:
The image quality was good, except for a few of the deleted scenes that were of a bit lower quality. Well done starting and end credits, though I think that one starting credit would have been better than two.
Video quality: 9 of 10

Audio editing and audio quality:
The audio editing was most of the time well done. There are some clicks and some scenes are a bit too loud in comparison or too quiet. Still: wonderful audio editing.
audio editing: 9 of 10
audio quality: 8 of 10

presentation:
The DVD comes with a still main menu on which 2 video screens are put. it looks a lot like tmpg dvd author and not realyl good. 25 chapter menus all with sound is kind of an overkill. The included extras are both bad quality. Cover art was attached, which is ok, but not great.
DVD menus: 4 of 10, cover art 6 of 10, extras: 3 of 10, existence of chapters, extras and cover art: 10 of 10

This results in a 6 of 10 rating from me for presentation.

Final result: 8 of 10.
A great fanedit, which I can highly recommend to anyone who likes X-Men or superhero movies in general. It is a huge improvement over the originals IMO.