Just not very good!

Rating: 5/10 (26 May 2006)

In comparison with X-1 and X-2 its just not as good. Its as cheesy as a spy kids movie, with over hammy acting and a pretty poor screenplay. Yes i understand its a Marvel movie but X-men has always been one of the better Marvel movies because it wasn't afraid to get gritty and a bit violent. Brett Ratner should not have been the director of this. THere are no doubt some good action sequences. But on the flip side there are countless movie mistakes. In a certain unnamed scene it is broad daylight then in the next camera angle it is complete night- time. And another when the bridge cracks and while the camera is in a crane shot a small CGI figure is seen to be leaping across an at least 20 foot gap and then land like a frog. (No it was not a mutant.) X-men is not a kids trilogy yet Ratner makes it just that. With tacky and predictable love scenes and little to none character development X-men just doesn't compare to its predecessors.
I f your looking for a good Marvel movie see something like The blade series or daredevil.