The Best Stand Yet

Rating: Null/10 (4 June 2006)

X-MEN: THE LAST STAND ****1/2 The most gimmick-laden (so far) in the series, it's mere two hour length is packed with action, drama, and character scenarios to make it surpass both its predecessors in excellence. It's not to say that the first two had serious limit to these credentials, but here they are orchestrated with an intense well brought-out screenplay, making the viewer all the more engaged in the film. When a cure is found to treat mutants of their abnormality, the X-Men have to stop the bad mutants from destroying the treatment and beings (human or otherwise) who stand in their way. We never really find out the intent of the humans in regards to whether they want to force the mutants to take the treatment, but it's as though the bad guys have enough reason to start a war. Some of the riveting scenes come from the passing of few of the X-Men.