Well saw the movie an really really liked it, id say love.. but it's hard for me to love a film that may be the last either period, or for a few years sadly. Were there things in it i'd have changed? Damn straight but guess what? They don't make movies for all of uss who have read them for years an years, but to give us alot of what we liked while making it open for ALL to enjoy. As stonecutter said there is ALOT of fighting which is mostly a good thing, tho ill admitt i was hoping for a few match up's i did not see. I echo also his message to stay and wait till all the credits are over, the payoff i thought was well worth it. Anyway i thought Rattner did i fine fine job, i must confess the movie was ALOT better then i thought it would of been when Singer decided to do Superman. I say it with my girl who knows a bit, but never read it always as most of us did, she loved it and said if this is the last one it did a good job of wrapping many things up. I will say this all ofus who have spent decades and time, and emotionally put time in to reading all about our fav lil ol muties, can only truthfully expect the ESSENCE of the book to remain, and i did. To me the Xmen have always been about hope an tolerance, i thought both of these points were again hit on throught the film, all in all ill be happy (well as i can be :p) if this is it, im just hoping all the fans, and the many looking for a fun movie will make the box office something those greedy bastards in hollywood will just see has ALOT more life in it ( lol read cash for them) lol fun for us. Anyway id advise anyone who likes the Xmen to go, sit back, and hopefully you will be as pleasantly surprised by the job Rattner did i i was.

heh, i too was a bit let down....not to say that i didnt enjoy the movie an take it for what it was... that is to say i had to take it as its own story and not consider it a depiction of the dark pheonex saga....seeing that is my favorite x-men comic ever. looking at it as something else....it was good although i didnt feel like jean did enough in it. and after the second one i sure was expecting the hole dark pheonex thing to be better. and after the previews and hearing that they were doing the hole "cure" plot line i expected appocolipse and other charectors who didnt show.....ah well still fun.

I was severly disappointed. I feel it lost the comic feeling that the other two had, Halle Berry did terrible, the writing was god aweful and some of the so called "main characters" were in for about 10 seconds. That being said, there were some pleasant little surprises (it still didn't make up for the rest of the movie) such as seeing the sentinel (at his head).

I went to see X3 for a second time. I still quite enjoyed enjoyed it. On the walk back to the car, something occurred to me: Many of the complaints I've heard revolve around comparisons between the X1, 2 & 3. No one seems to acknowledge that the X-Men movies are segments of a trilogy... and, as such, work very well together. Viewed from that mindset, I find I appreciate the franchise even more.

Thinking of another trilogy, Lord of The Rings, I can't recall anyone comparing those indiviudal segments against one another.

Yes, I too wish that Brian Singer had directed X3, but he didn't. I'm happy with Brett Ratner's direction.

A lot of fanboys are griping about what was done to the various characters... how the movie isn't "true to the comic". Well, the comics aren't true to the comics, so why sould the movie be any truer? If that line of thinking were followed, the movie would have featured Beast, Iceman, Cyclops, Angel & Marvel Girl. There'd be no Storm or Colossus or Wolverine or any All-New, All-Different X-Men at all.

We fanboys, especially us X-Zombies, can be surprisingly closed-minded and resistant to change, methinks.