Absolutely entertaining, intelligent and visually stunning.

Rating: 8/10 (31 May 2006)

I thought it was completely awesome and very very entertaining.
People that are claiming they didn't enjoy it or it diverted from the comic book too much have to realize that the movies still have to be completely accessible to everyone. You can't make a $150 million movie and then just try and appeal to the purists.
I think it was an epic storyline, intelligent ideas were posed, obviously had some cheesy Hollywood-isms but that is unavoidable. The effects were amazing and it really did look like the first full fledged superhero flick were the effects were able to capture everyones powers and potential visually, you just cant have too many FX shots in a movie like x-men, because its a movie where basically two waring factions of mutants do battle....the effects were never excessive or cheesy.
Even the scene where the 7 remaining X-Men are going to do battle and Wolverine utters the phrase "as x-men" for the first time in the series was cool in the same sense that there was some comeradary in the animated TV series, that moments was actually sweet but cool.
It's too bad they had to offer Storm so much screen time, because Halle Berry gets bloody annoying sometimes.
Obviously a lot of people preferred aspects of the Bryan Singer movies (the first two) mainly the deeper character development. Whereas X2 was all Logan, at least this one delved pretty deep into Jean Grey, and still moved the pace of the entire big story of the X-Men along very effectively.
and ultimately I hope its the last one unless they get an unbelievably great script with like Gambit and stuff for the next one. .