Where is Bryan Singer when you need him?

Rating: 7/10 (16 May 2006)

X-Men 3: The Last Stand is indeed the last chapter in the X-Men saga. That's pretty much the conclusion when you've seen the film. I guess we must be glad that there will be no part 4, because director Brett Ratner came pretty close to destroying the whole X-Men movie franchise. I guess everybody knows the story of The Last Stand. Jean Grey comes back from the dead and turns evil. In the meantime scientists have found a way to destroy the X-gene that turns humans into mutants. In other words: mutants can be cured.
Let us begin with the good news. The action scenes in The Last Stand are great. Storm and Beast get a lot of screen time (and Halle looks gorgeous!) and there's one great scene in the middle of the movie in which an important character dies. Wow! The man doesn't just die. He gets crucified! And we're not talking extra's here, it's freaking ******! The bad news then. The music is awful. Looks like it was taken from a bad direct-to-DVD horrorflick. The dialogs are bad. The Dark Phoenix doesn't do a lot until the finale of the movie. And all the people that we learned to love (and hate) make an unworthy exit. Didn't Rattner have more respect for our X-Men heroes?
Bryan Singer succeeded in turning the X-Men story into more than just an action movie. How we miss his sense of the characters and vision on this universe. The finale was okay though and the whole experience was - let's say - entertaining. So I give this a 7 out of 10.
January 2013 - Been watching the extended fanedit by ADigitalman. This actually works a lot better although all the main criticism remains: the music is so wrong. Bryan Singer would have turned this one into an great epic movie. Unfortunately he did Superman. What a shame. Still looking forward to Days of Future Past though!