great movie.

Rating: 9/10 (20 September 2006)

I loved this movie. The first two in the series were hard to follow, and Brett Ratner had a very fresh take on how to portray the stories. It does not follow the comic books as well as the first two, but in diverging from them it creates new emotional stories with a tad more realism than a comic book could ever have. Unfortunately, it is an action movie, and can only invest so much time in developing each character's emotional arc. It is a busy, intense, suspenseful and utterly gorgeous film, with a haunting ending that leaves room for more.
I'd also like to add, the comic book had a series called "the last stand" and that it was not indeed the end of the xmen... I'm sure it won't stop here.