An Honest Review

Rating: 2/10 (19 November 2016)

Indecision will kill you. That's what they told me in Driver's Ed. That's what they told me when I was studying History. And that is what they told me after they closed down my school and I was forced to take a job working with violent people.
The same holds true with movies apparently. Indecision is what killed the Ghost Rider movies and it's what Killed X-Men: The Last Stand.
They promised us The Dark Phoenix Saga when Bryan Singer was still at the helm. They set it up in X2 and started to run with it in X-Men: The Last Stand.
And then, abruptly, they started to chase the Joss Whedon Gifted story arc.
How does that old Native American saying go: "If you chase two rabbits you'll lose the both." yeah, it pretty much means "Indecision Kills." Dark Phoenix/Gifted The Last Stand chased both rabbits and lost them both. It couldn't decide which plot to follow and it robbed from both of them, predictably pulling off neither.
It wasn't the lack of experience on Brett Ratner's behalf--although to be fair he hasn't exactly pulled anything off. It wasn't the fact that he had too many characters to try and balance.
The fact is, pure and simple, X-Men: The Last Stand failed because it couldn't decide on what story it wanted to tell.