Review of X-Men: The Not-So Last Stand

Rating: 5/10 (30 May 2006)

X-Men the Last Stand was a highly disappointing installment in the X-Men series. (By the way, when a movie makes $120 million in its first four days, its not the last movie in the series)Brett Ratner took the reigns for this latest X-Men movie and he did an admirable job considering the conditions he was reportedly working on.
First off for all avid IMDb users and x-men fans, you may had noticed how 'X-Men 3' took a long time to be officially announced, and then it took an even longer time for the movie to get settled on a director. Bryan Singer did not take kindly to this and promptly left to do Superman Returns. So by the time the studio finally decided on Brett Ratner, he was given 14 months to make a $210 million movie without a script. The studio never gave the filmmakers a chance to make a quality movie (which by the way is not what the studio is after, it is after $), thus Brett Ratner wasn't exactly given a fair shake at this movie. However, a movie must be reviewed by the final product, horror stories about making the film cannot hurt or help the movie.
This movie is by no means as bad as fellow comic book movies like the Punisher, Batman and Robin, or the original Superman movies, but its no X2, X-Men, or Batman Begins either. What the movie lacks in heart, substance, character development, and original plot (plot is pretty similar to the first two installments)the movie makes up for in creative action scenes, and spectacular special effects. But what the movies lacks really holds it back from being a good movie, and is instead just a popcorn summer blockbuster that will let down the hearts of true X-Men fans.