It's X-Men with the brains sucked out *SPOILERS*

Rating: 5/10 (25 May 2006)

Lower your expectations, now lower them again, and now one more time, Now you're at the level where the film might meet your expectations. Let me clarify first of all the I have never read the comics so I can only compare this movie to the first two. To say that I am disappointed would be an understatement, I wasn't expecting much from Ratner but my god I was expecting more than I got. People have commented that this movie sacrifices its story for more action but I struggle to see how it has more than X2. I'm struggling to remember any of the fight sequences in the movie, it just seemed to be a mass of people fighting and dying with me not caring. There is absolutely no emotional connection with the characters apart from maybe Magneto, I can't believe I have just watched an X-Men movie. We were spoilt with the 1st two, where they built up each scene, X3 just rushes through as if it was directed by a teenager doing a media studies assignment. Ratner clearly does not understand what the whole story is about, maybe because he is from such a privileged background?
The only reason I give it 5 stars is because I have seen worse movies and to give it less would give the others more credence.
It's shame that this franchise has gone the way of the Terminator and Alien movies. If I had a single wish now it would be for Fox to bin this and bring back Singer to remake the whole thing. Ratner needs to stay away from making movies he has no idea about, I feel I could have made a better movie than he has.