People are being way too hard on this extremely fun comic book film...

Rating: 7/10 (26 May 2006)

I saw it tonight and loved it. Yes I am a recovering comic book geek. No they don't follow the comic book continuity exactly. Name one comic book movie that has! You can't. Instead we got exactly more of what we got before in the last two installments. Characters that we care about i.e. wolverine, professor x etc. Thrilling set pieces and cool bad guys. Some of it gave me chills and even brought a tear to my girlfriends eye. (who isn't a x- men fan btw) There are a lot of cameos and easter eggs in this one for the HARDCORE x-men geeks like me. But its still very accessible to the every day moviegoer.
So I give Brett Ratner credit on this. Ratner did the best he could in the limited about of time he had to make this movie(and it was limited) and therefore parts of it feel a little rushed. It feels like it could have used another 15-20 minutes. The good news is though, that you will probably get it on the DVD that is sure to be released later this year.
It doesn't follow any x-men storyline exactly but ya know what? THAT IS OK! They got the spirit of the characters right. I'll admit it wasn't as good as part 2 but it was definitely better than part 1 and this is most assuredly NOT the last stand...