The Worst Stand

Rating: 3/10 (12 October 2006)

Brett Ratner's next project should be about meat heads on steroids blowing stuff up because that's where his strengths lie. The action sequences in X3 where very well done and that's the only positive thing to say about the movie. I have been waiting for Last Stand to come out since the premier of X2 in 2003. I was convinced that the story could only get better. Alas, no. There is no hint of emotional attachment to any of the characters. When major characters are killed off, it's obviously for shock value and you're just left with a displaced feeling of whaa? Each of the subplots could have been viable if the time was taken to set them up properly. I have accepted that the movie universe is different from the comic book universe and would have been content if the storyline changes were consistent within the frame of the movie universe. The entire attempt just felt half-hearted. If the characters are not invested in their own fate, why should I care? I have loved the X-Men in every incarnation they have had and I hope Bryan Singer can pull of a Batman Begins type move to help us all to wipe this disaster from our collective memories.