“MaXXXine” (**1/2 out of four) was a highly uneven melodrama set in 1980’s Hollywood in which an adult film star (Mia Goth) tries to make it through the seedy and difficult industry to achieve her big break but just as her career starts to be taking off- a serial killer is on the prowl which threatens to cause her to unravel. Initially stylish and scary and very well-directed by writer/director Ti West but it tails off some as it goes on and wallows in excess and unpleasantness before its pretentious and surreal conclusion. An interesting effort in parts that falls apart in the stretch. Film marks the third part of the “X” trilogy after “X” and “Pearl.”