I liked This A Lot

Rating: 9/10 (11 November 2009)

Of the three (four including Wolverine) X-men movies, I enjoyed this one the most. I thought it was a fitting conclusion to the trilogy.
When the original X-men came out I hated it because it was not true to the comic book story. But an old friend of mine gave me some advice: "Just take it as a story from a different point of view." Once I began doing that for the Marvel movies I really have enjoyed most all of them.
There were a lot of things that happened that I was certainly not expecting (Cyclops dying in the very beginning, Professor Xavior being destroyed, Mystique and Magneto being depowered).
With the exception of Juggernaut, all of the mutants look great I think they did a great job with Beast. Sure it would have been cool to see The Phoenix all fiery, but again, this is from a different viewpoint from the comics, so I can accept a different version of her.
I'm glad that Colossus and Kitty Pride were given feature roles in this film, as they are two of my favorite X-men.
This movie came out during the time that the Astonishing X-Men comic was in full force and even though this movie was not trying to take directly from the stories of that comic, it did look like the film borrowed snippets of ideas from time to time.
Everything looked very cool in this movie and it is definitely a awesome movie, especially for someone who is a superhero fan.