Unless you're a comic book purist, you'll probably like this movie

Rating: Null/10 (1 June 2006)

Most of the negative reviews on this site tend to be along the lines of the "they'd never do that in the comics" variety. Well, this is a movie, not a faithful dramatization of the comic book canon. If you liked the original comic stories, great, they're still there for your enjoyment. If you want the X-Men movies to be completely unoriginal retellings of those same stories, you will be disappointed by this movie.
If you're open to a new experience, a new story featuring characters BASED ON the comics, you'll probably like this movie. X3 is a little brisk for my taste, I certainly feel that they could have devoted more time to getting to know the new characters and revisiting the old characters we've come to know from the first two movies. Hopefully the DVD will bring some new scenes that do just that.
By no means should you stay away from this movie because some reviewer has an axe to grind against Brett Ratner or because of the movie's lack of faithfulness to the comics stories. I especially would recommend this movie to people who liked the first two movies, but haven't read the comics. I think that even if Bryan Singer had directed this movie, he would have disappointed many comics fans, to some extent that seems unavoidable.