Review from a comic fan.

Rating: 3/10 (30 May 2006)

What can I say about this film? Well to start off there were many, many problems regarding the characters. I know that when a comic goes to the big screen character changes are to be expected. However, this was truly bad. My number one character issue was...
JUGGERNAUT: Other than the one-liners this character was ruined, top to bottom. Juggernaut is the type of villain that if done correctly, see the x-men comics for reference, can carry the role of a film's antagonist by himself. It took Spider-Man and X-Factor, together, 3 issues to defeat Juggernaut! Over the top, loud and indestructible. The films Juggernaut managed to ruin everything great about this character. If you are going to put Juggernaut in an X-film you should take the time to do him right. Otherwise, just pick a different villain to use. One major continuity error involving Juggernaut: Juggernaut is NOT mutant! He never has been. They made him a mutant in the movie. If he had not been a mutant, like in the books, the movie would have ended quite differently. Juggernaut also should have been a computer generated character.
Halle Berry is the worst thing to happen to comics since The Spider Clones.
They introduced MANY new characters, good and bad alike. Multiple-Man, Angel, Marrow, and Beast, among others. Out of the above Beast was the only to receive any good amount of screen time. Like Juggernaut, many of these new characters were fooled with to the point of being unrecognizable, Marrow anyone? If you are going to take the screen time to introduce a slew of new character then take the time to do something with them, this is just bad film making.
Likewise, characters who were introduced last movie, Kitty Pride and Collosus, hardly got any screen time. Even though they were both key X-Men at one point.
The movie seemed like a giant trailer for the upcoming Wolverine movies. Which pains me to say, being a giant Wolverine fan. Besides Wolverine, Storm was the only other protagonist to get major screen time, and see the Halle Berry issue above.
None of the X-Movies were particularly great. But this was the worst. This film fails on so many levels I can't even begin to cover all the problems. If you are a comic-geek, like myself, then you will likely have as many problems with it. If you aren't a comic fan and enjoy action films, then you will probably enjoy it.
3 out of 10