A fun film, just not enough of it...

Rating: 7/10 (3 June 2006)

X-Men (3) The Last Stand is the third film in the series of X-men films following on from where the last film left off. However in doing so, there are several things that need to be explained, the one obvious thing is; where is Nightcrawler? Apparently though this is explained in the game, so fair enough.
We see the return of most of the X-Men from the last film, at in doing so, most end up being "removed" from the film, and then add in a few new ones, whose reason to be in this movie is not fully explained in the 1:30 time slot. Though we do get to see these new mutants in action, there is lack of character development with the new mutants, Angel, Juggernaut and Multiple Man have very little appearances in the film, nor do they have many lines, they have a good choice of actors, yet we don't get to see much of their potential as mutants because of the lacking lines. The only new mutant who gets character development is Beast played by Kelsey Grammar who executes the role well. However these mutants are put on, just so then Ratner can kill off a few, then replace them with these new ones, Cyclops is a prime example, his removal hardly did much to make Ratner develop the new mutants. For the mutants who had lacking screen time on the film, Brett Ratner could've of addressed this situation by making the film longer instead of trying to fit it all in a 1:30 time slot, surely he could've made the film go over at least 2 hours, the last film did, that way he would've been able to fit in all that was necessary, and everyone would be happy (I wish it were just as easy as that). Ratner instead trades development for action, and there are some scenes in the film that are fun to watch, like the Juggernaut chasing Kitty. Yet the lack of character development makes it feel these characters don't seem necessary in the film.
Though, if they are making a 4th film, I do hope that the issues in this film are addressed to.