Why didn't Magneto just drop the Golden Gate Bridge on Alcatraz Island...or better yet, just get the Phoenix to incinerate the island....

Rating: 2/10 (21 April 2009)

The second sequel in the X-men series was a poor follow-up. The three or four solid, intriguing story lines developed in the first two movies were but fragments in The Last Stand, and the various character portraits reduced to skeletons of themselves.
Instead of mutants appearing as powerful, otherworldly-sorts of beings, they are now hunted down similar to how petty criminals get chased and cornered in "reality" crime shows such as Cops or Dog: Bounty Hunter. Whereas mutants used to be individually-painted and each possess a visibly distinctive set of superpowers, they are now faceless members of a 'mob', and dress in the Gothic garb of the creatures that once filled UPN's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. For Chrissakes, one mutant's superpower is to turn into the villain from Hellraiser....
Plans for world domination have now become reduced to killing some little Golden Child who can turn mutants into normal human beings. This Golden Child is sequestered on Alcatraz island, and an entire army (!) of mutants traipses over to San Francisco in order to eliminate this threat.
Now, when Magneto tore the Golden Gate Bridge off of its moorings in order to give the mutants something to cross San Franciso Bay, I started wondering why he didn't just take this many thousands of tons of flying metal, and drop the damn thing right on the structures on the island where the boy was housed. That certainly would have crushed most anything standing upright on the island. Magneto could then have "swept" the bridge from side to side, like some giant metal broom, across the surface of the island, to further crush and grind its inhabitants into the dirt.
Wait a minute, that above scenario seems too complicated...Wain't the character of Phoenix set up to have near-omnipotent powers? Why didn't Magneto just very nicely ask her to raze the island to the ground with her vast mental powers? She might have refused him...? Okay, well then, he could have fallen back on Plan B of using the bridge as a multi-ton flying weapon...
Wouldn't those two scenarios have been far better climaxes, or near-climaxes, than a "street fight" sort of ending pitting dozens of faceless mutants against each other? Sure, these scenarios might have shortened the movie by a considerable amount, but then that freed-up movie time could have been used for something much more worthwhile, such as character development of the mutants...