20th Century Fox
I don't know why the third movie in most trilogies is always shitty. Sure there has been a few moments where the final installment has been the best, but it's usually the worst. Especially when it comes to comic book movies. Spider-Man 3, Blade: Trinity and now X-Men: The Last Stand. Superman 3 was saved from that list because they thought it'd be a good idea to make a 4th one.. and that one sucked even more, so 3 was only the second worst in the series! That's one of the few redeeming things you can say about that one. Now let's see if we can say anything redeeming about The Last Stand?
That wasn't meant to be so hard.. let's see.. it has.. explosions! Lots of explosions! And Colossus fighting bad guys! And.. Kitty Pryde! Yeah, there we go: it has Kitty Pryde. It's the cool thing to say that this is an awful movie, and it really isn't. It's never boring and has some pretty entertaining moments, but some of the decisions are so stupid that it makes any fan of the X-Men easily turn against the film. Case in point, Cyclops. After wasting him in two movies, he's got one scene here, in which he dies. The fearless leader of the X-Men, going out in a scene that doesn't even top five minutes, early on in the movie. I know it's probably for the best since he was so wasted the whole series, but it still pissed me off.
The plot has some silly things going on in it, mostly shit that Bret Ratner always tries to do in his movies, and it's mostly harmless but always stupid. Everything is talked about with great importance and drama, but it always comes off very "meh". Honestly, it took me three times to watch this movie over the past 8 years and I always lost interest at some point, this time I didn't but I completely see why I had in the past. With so many important things going on, things shouldn't be so damn uninteresting at times.
They did right a few wrongs with this movie, namely Storm gets used like she should have been, and the inclusion of the danger room and Kitty Pryde were fun, but like I said, when you sandwich those moments in between a bunch of crap.. well, you aren't left with anything that special. That said, if you can look past the misuse and lack of staying true to the source material, this isn't really all bad. X-Men: The Last Stand teeters dangerously close between crossing over into both good and bad, it never really strives to be anything more.
The plot has some silly things going on in it, mostly shit that Bret Ratner always tries to do in his movies, and it's mostly harmless but always stupid. Everything is talked about with great importance and drama, but it always comes off very "meh". Honestly, it took me three times to watch this movie over the past 8 years and I always lost interest at some point, this time I didn't but I completely see why I had in the past. With so many important things going on, things shouldn't be so damn uninteresting at times.
They did right a few wrongs with this movie, namely Storm gets used like she should have been, and the inclusion of the danger room and Kitty Pryde were fun, but like I said, when you sandwich those moments in between a bunch of crap.. well, you aren't left with anything that special. That said, if you can look past the misuse and lack of staying true to the source material, this isn't really all bad. X-Men: The Last Stand teeters dangerously close between crossing over into both good and bad, it never really strives to be anything more.
Very mild recommendation for fans of the first two.
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