One of The Most Disorganized Movies I Have Ever Seen

Rating: 1/10 (9 December 2006)

X-Men:The Last Stand(2006)
********BIGTIME SPOILERS AHEAD********
Review: The Last Stand. Perhaps it is indeed. I was not thrilled that this could be the final installment. I did not pay attention to anything about this movie till release. I was expecting a fitting ending to the awesome franchise. This is not what I expected at all. Let me tell you in this review why The Last Stand is a major letdown.
The movie starts with the X-Men in the danger room training. Cool visuals are here and we see the first peek at a sentinel. Cool. However, after that good opening, things get a little sour. Cyclops is a mess after Jean's "death". Then somehow Jean returns. The Phoenix. The Phoenix is very disappointing. I was expecting fire. I was expecting a new look. I was expecting the Phoenix to do something too! Towards the end of this, Jean just stands in one place for what seems like DAYS before she annihilates Alcatraz.
More drawbacks, The Last Stand avoids character development like the plague. One sequence, Magneto and the only two remaining followers left, break out a few new mutants. We meet Juggernaut and Multiple Man. This comes off as disappointing as Naut and Multiple join Magneto without question. Will you join us? Okay. That's it?! Lame.
The whereabouts of Nightcrawler are unknown. After a spectacular debut in X2, he is gone. No explanation to what happened. Just gone. How disappointing.
Cyclops is in about ten minutes of this movie. Does anybody pay attention to the comics? Cyclops is the appointed leader of the X-Men. Why is he being so ignored? Cyclops is an underrated favorite and worse yet, gets killed off without a trace. If you blink, you will miss the scene. It's that bad. Cyclops gets no hero's death, he gets disposed of like yesterday's trash. Blasphemy! The debut of Angel was lame. He decides to keep his powers and that's that. Nothing else. The plot is the only thing here that is good. The way the humans developed the "cure" is original. We also meet Beast. Unfortunately, like I wrote earlier, this movie avoids character development. Beast is already a member of the X-Men just like that. We did not even see him in X2 and he's a X-Man? We see some mutants lose their powers too. I won't tell you who, but the one that do made me violently angry. This movie suffers from being rushed. Imagine a marathon runner running as fast as he can, he that trips and lands on the ground, gets up and continues running only to stumble again and lands on his face and breaks his nose and gets back up and continues running to only fall once more and suffers a broken jaw. That's what this movie is like. This movie is WAY to rushed and gets worse and more painful the faster it gets.
The Last Stand has too many characters, too little running time, too rushed, chaotic, and turns into an absolute mess. After a good first movie and a excellent sequel, we get what could indeed be the last stand. Just why did this have to be dreadful? A good conclusion would have been nice. Then again, this could not be the last. If another X-Men movie comes around, I'll be surprised if it's any good after this.
The Last Word: You think the Titanic was a disaster? This is much worse.