The weakest of the three

Rating: 5/10 (29 August 2006)

Right off the bat you can tell that Bryan Singer isn't at the helm of this final(?) installation of the X-Men movies. The movie is a lot "clumsier" put together and lacks all the feeling that Singer put into the previous two movies.
Quite a few of the characters are either very black and white or act out of character and the story is either too simple and obvious or to obscure and inexplicable.
The actors put in a great performance but it's not enough as there's too little emotion most of the time and when there is emotion, it's so overblown that it gets embarrassing.
Kelsey Grammar does a pretty decent rendition of The Beast, even in the fighting scenes (although a fair bit is CGI). Why The Beast is in the movie to begin with is not entirely clear to me though.
The fight scenes are nice but they could have skipped the plot and just had 90 minutes of non stop fighting, the rest isn't even good enough as filler material.
Fans of the X-Men comics will no doubt be upset over how some of the characters are re-written to fit into the movie but that's the least of this movies worries.
See it if you've seen the other two or just want a decent superhero flick. Otherwise you shouldn't really bother.