X-Men - The Last Stand (2006)

The best of the three.

I loved the first one.
The second one really didn't do much for me.
This one?
LOVED IT!!!
Fantastic acting from the entire cast.
Excellent direction, fx that were VERY impressive, an overall awesome movie.
I loved the ending, will this be the end of X - Men? Or as the ending suggests, will there be more?
As long as their as good as this one, I hope so.
If your new to X - Men, start with part one.
Part two is worth checking out, but part three is where everyone and everything really shines.
Highly recommended.
June 30, 2008

I hope this isn't the end of the X-men movies.

This movie had a lot of everything, and I loved it. I hope it's not really their Last Stand.

Briefly, we dealt with Death and Resurrection, concerning Jean Grey (Phoenix), Cyclops & Professor X.

We see some early insights into the power of Jean Grey. We see more insights into the romantic tensions between Jean Grey and Wolverine.

A good element of the story is the invention of a "cure" for the mutants. They will allegedly be allowed to choose whether or not they want the cure. But you just have to know the government is likely to take that choice away.

Magneto gathers his Evil Mutants to fight the "normal" people who have created the cure. This involves moving the Golden Gate bridge to allow them to move to Alcatraz Island.

Some of my favorite X-men return in this movie, and many new ones are introduced. One of my favorites is Kelsey Grammar (Frazer) as the Beast. It is such a great match.

The biggest problem with this movie is the abundance of characters, in the X-men and the Evil Mutants. So many characters get only a few moments to shine.

Again, I think this is a result of a valiant effort to cover the wide range of characters and changes over the past 40+ years of the X-men's history.

My biggest regret was that I didn't see this in a theater... I lost some of the dramatic impact, and missed the audience reaction.

But I can save the DVDs for a long time. June 29, 2008

Definition of blue ray

Buy this if you want to see what blue ray is capable of! Of course, you have to have an HD flat screen to watch this. The picture quality and sound was great. Everything was clear about the picture. You can see the clarity of Beast's paint on his face. Besides the blue ray part, story plot is a okay. May 28, 2008

Overblown Disappointment

This outing for our mutant friends is disappointing on so many levels. The film makers have clearly lost track of just what it is that made the first two movies so great. One of the great things that Bryan Singer did with those movies was to, ironically, humanize the mutants.

Yes, they have amazing powers, but the movies worked best when they treated the use of those powers as just routine. Ice Man blowing on Wolverine's soda to chill it. Magneto simulating the kinetic ball toy on his desktop. These things were done with hardly any fanfare. But it's a far cry from this movie where, every single time Storm decides to use her power, they do a zoom-in to her eyes to remind you they turn white when she exerts herself.

We know they're mutants. We know they're super-human. We need to also feel they're human. If the audience can't connect with the heroes, there's no point.

**Warning - Minor Spoilers**

Add to that the fact that they decided to kill off too many of the big names--and largely without real reason within the story--and the movie not only disappoints, but ends up offending fans of those characters. May 7, 2008

"A let Down"

If they make another after this It better pick up all the slack in this one, this was bad, not horrible, but bad. April 28, 2008

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