Stream it now X-Men: The Last Stand 2006

 

Not much better than its predecessors. There's almost too many characters to keep up with. Also, the love story is pathetic.

I don't care about directors, this was an explosively EPIC finale with seriously interesting mutants, fine graphics, epic music, a de-mutating Beast, a crazy telekinetic and a few interesting cliffhangers. X-men films are just plain great.

average..:(

Extremely dissapointing after such a good second film. With the last stand they've gone distinctly for brawn over brain.

When Bryan Singer decided not to direct this film, there was no shortage of horrified gasps from moviegoers. Yet his decision made perfect sense: he had already made two "X-Men" films that functioned beautifully together as one movie--the first was a portrait of a world of intolerance and the second explored all the horrifying things that would happen if that world continued to exist.
At that point, audiences had seen enough to know that it wasn't enough to watch the movies--they had to act upon them, to create the unified world Singer claimed that we desperated needed. The franchise had done its duty.
But Fox hastily hired director Brett Ratner to turn the duology into a trilogy. Contrary to popular belief, Ratner is not completed incompetent. He directed Nicholas Cage in "The Family Man", a wise and touching fantasy about a corporate bigshot discovering his unacknowledged need for communal human connection. That movie had many beautifully melancholy moments and "The Last Stand" has a few--a subplot about the mutant Cyclops' grief over his dead lover is full of real anguish.
Unfortunately, Cyclops is dispatched early in the movie so Ratner can focus more time on soulless explosions and obnoxious one liners, but as a lover of the saga's desperate, embattled characters, I found it difficult to despise the film. In spite of Singer's absence, I still felt moved and exhilerated by the movie, which receives a much needed lift from John Powell's dramatic score and a plethora of irresistably epic battles, particularly the apocalyptic showdown between Phoenix and Wolverine.

It's still an 'okay' movie, but the last two are much better, for several reasons. This movie is lacking in plot, character (development), and dramatic effect. It overcompensates in lots of fighting and shooting. Not really a winning strategy in the film industry, don't you think? Ah, well. At least they didn't do anything stupid like kill Cyclops off in the very beginning. Wait...they did?!? WTF???

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Some good ideas, but there are more mistakes - not least of which is the decision to go ahead without the director. He left (taking Cyclops with him) to do his best with his dream job of Superman Returns, but they've been ruining DC characters for some years, and he shouldn't have bothered. Everyone looses!

Others hated it, but I loved it. It was awesome and really shined with character diversity!

As in many trilogies, this one ends sadly indeed. Brett Ratner's actiony style replaces Bryan Singer's even grittier dark atmosphere that made X-Men be called X-Men.