Shocking Ending but Good

Rating: 10/10 (21 June 2006)

X-Men 3: The Last Stand Starring: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, James Marsden, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Romijn Stamos, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin, Vinnie Jones, Ben Foster, Kelsey Grammar, Patrick Stewart, Daniel Cudmore and Ellen Page
Rated PG-13 for Intense Sequences of Action Violence, Some Sexual Content and Language
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi/Thriller
Star Rating: ****1/2 out of 5
In this third and final X-Men film, a cure for mutants has been made by the Worthington Industries. For the first time, mutants have a choice: retain their uniqueness, though it isolates and alienates them, or give up their powers and become human. The opposing viewpoints of mutant leaders Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), who preaches tolerance, and Magneto (Ian McKellen), who believes in the survival of the fittest, are put to the ultimate test triggering the war to end all wars. Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) becomes possessed with the power of the Dark Phoenix and the X-Men must stop her before her powers destroy the entire planet. This movie should have had some more fight scenes to make it a more interesting final battle but it was still good. The only new characters in this last X-Men movie are Juggernaut (Vinnie Jones), Hank McCoy/Beast (Kelsey Grammar) and Warren Washington/Angel (Ben Foster). Plus Colossus (Daniel Cudmore) and Shadowkat (Ellen Page) get some more time in the spotlight since they had little time in X-Men 2. But it was too bad that Cyclops (James Marsden) and some other characters had to be killed off. Plus I have always enjoyed Hugh Jackman's performances in the X-Men movies as Wolverine. All and all X-Men 3 was good but there some characters from the comic book that they forgot to include in the movie.
BOTTOM LINE: A GOOD ENDING TO THE X-MEN TRILOGY