Different but still good.

Rating: 7/10 (17 May 2006)

Saw this last night.
Gotta say, woah. I had read a lot of spoilers for this film and there was still major surprises.
No real spoilers ahead. Just talking about unspecific characterization. Ratner definitely has a different style then Singer. While Singer didn't quite get the characters right (at least not the way they should be been from the comics) Ratner does. However, he doesn't really develop his characters properly. It's missing the subtlety of X-men 1 & 2. It's still amazing, but I wish it had taken its time more.
Of the new characters, Beast in spot-on and had just enough screen time to really get to know him. Angel, on the other hand, despite being set-up for decent characterization is really shortchanged. Phoenix, too, while getting plenty of screen time could have been explained better.