Ratners Comment About His Own Movie Sums It Up, "Just Eye Candy."

Rating: 5/10 (25 May 2006)

After having one of my good friends, whose movie opinion I usually trust, go to the X3 premiere, and tell me it was bad, I had absolutely no expectations walking into the cinema today to see the film. And let me tell you, it would probably help you a lot if you also went in with no expectations. Giving this film 5 is probably only because of that.
This is my opinion. If you have seen nothing of the X-Men films, and just want a good action film, then you'll enjoy this. But if you have seen the previous X-Men films (like myself) and have to see how it ends, enter at the risk of wasting 100 minutes of your life.
But it does have its moments. Wolverine and Storm are quite good (only because the whole story revolves around them.) Besides them, Kelsey Grammar as Beast is one of the best casting roles in a while, in my opinion. Grammar made me believe, for brief moments, that this film was decent. MOST of the action sequences were brilliant. And anytime Angel popped up on screen, it was gold.
If you plan to blame Brett Ratner, however, cut him some slack. The blame should be placed firmly on the writers, Zak Penn (Elektra) and Simon Kinberg (XXX2 and Mr And Mrs Smith.) The script was absolutely pathetic (look to Juggernaut for some real dodgy lines), but it had its moments (look to Wolverine and Beast.) The main problem in this film is that it tries to fit 8 or 9 X-Men comic book story lines into the one film, and they are all done incorrectly.
Another problem with this film is that half the mutants you see in the film, you don't even get a name. There could have been more credibility if someone like Quicksilver was in it, not just some random with his powers.
All in all, this is, as Ratner previously quoted, "Just Eye Candy." Brett Ratner, this quote is bang on the money.