Don't go in with high expectations; good but not great

Rating: 6/10 (1 May 2009)

Well... I love X-Men and have been looking forward to this for a long time. Then I started hearing that it wasn't very good and my expectations dropped, thus when i saw it i wasn't absurdly disappointed.
The main problem with this movie was its lazy script. It possessed none of the dry humor of Wolverine from the other movies and some dialog was just too dry and simple when it could have been more finely suited to the characters.
Some characters were good ad did not get enough screen time, such as Wade Wilson and Gambit. While others who should not have been too extremely accentuated were. Overall I would just say there were too many characters and some should have had their screen time cut down.
Perhaps it was the budget or something else but some of the CGI was just terrible, such as his animated claws... I mean, what the neck was that? Just stick with the real stuff like the other movies, also when hacking at the fire escape to trap Gambit, that was sickening it was so cheesy... Though some was very good, like the cyclopes eye blast, the wraith teleporting, and Gambit's awesome stunts.
I liked it, it was fun, I might even buy it just to complete my collection. It's not the gem of Marvel as it could have been, and I would put it as Marvel middle ground, above things like Fantastic 4, Daredevil, Ghost Rider... But not as good as Marvel's best; Iron Man, X-Men 2, Spiderman 2 and The Incredible Hulk.
See it if you want to have some fun, but don't go looking for something amazing.