Entertaining, but yet not fulfilling

Rating: 7/10 (31 May 2006)

X-Men: The Last Stand is of course the final X-men film of the trilogy. A cure is found to treat mutations that draws a line amongst the X-Men led by Professor Charles Xavier, the brotherhood, and a band of powerful mutants under control of Xavier's former enemy, Magneto. I have never actually seen the second film of X-Men, although I heard it was the best of the trilogy. I instead saw the first film and enjoyed it thoroughly. So, I see the third one with better expectations, hoping it could be the best one. The film was really entertaining. The action scenes, which there were a ton in this movie were really good and the special effects seemed pretty real. Most of the characters played their parts well especially Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and my personal favorite from the film, Kelsey Grammar as Dr. Hank McCoy/The Beast. I was really surprised how the film ended in 1 hr and 45 minutes. It went really fast and seemed too short, for it being the last film in the trilogy.
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Of how much positives you found in the film, there were some negatives too that kind of let down my thoughts on if The Last Stand was going to be the best in the trilogy. Unfortunately, it wasn't. I mean right when the movie took off some characters that were huge in the last two films, just die off. There wasn't too much explaining to why also, they just die off and the characters that see it are like "hell with it." Also, there were some characters in the film that were kind of pointless such as Rogue, Kitty, Pyro, and Angel. They really didn't have to be in the film and no one would of cared if they weren't. Overall, a pretty good film to end the trilogy with. I don't think Brett Ratner was up to par with Singer's original X-Men's, but he didn't to bad. I recommend it for X-Men fans.
Hedeen's Outlook: 7/10 **+ C+