a lukewarm reception

Rating: 6/10 (26 May 2006)

In X-men: The Last Stand, director Brett Ratner takes the reigns from Bryan Singer, and in doing so manages to sort of crap all over what made the first two movies so good.
The film is kind of plagued with cheesy dialogue, and the characters are no longer believe-able, and the story just throws all sorts of new characters into the mix, without having ample time to develop them or give them any kind of significance in the movie.
Also, as this is deemed the "Last Stand" despite a cliffhanger ending, I still have a problem with the fact that this movie so readily kills off many roles- and omits other mutants altogether with no explanation. (Nightcrawler anyone?)
However, I must give it some credit- the movie isn't as bad as it could've been, and in seeing it I didn't feel like I had wasted my money.
Check it out, but wait for a matinée or the DVD.