Rating of
1/4
Skip It *Some Spoilers Below*
Arek - wrote on 04/15/08
The owners of the X-men movie rights apparently decided it was time to milk the third installment of the X-men trilogy for whatever it was worth. The final product churned out was among the worst Hollywood tripe imaginable. First of all, characters were killed left and right in this movie, almost at random. The first two movies spent a great deal of time developing and cultivating deep characters and their relationships, only to have X-Men Last Stand throw them into a meat grinder as some cheap party trick. Second, I found the ending contrived and boring. Finally, the theme and plot of the comic books were discarded entirely in this movie.
(if you don't care about the comic books you can stop reading this review now -suffice it to say the movie was sub par, whether it followed the comic book theme or not)
Now I'm not one to whine when a movie adaptation changes a comic book storyline - especially when I admit the comic book storyline gets a bit...weird. However, one would at least anticipate a change was made for the better. Instead, The Last Stand abandons everything held dear by X-men fans. The theme of mutation vs. normalcy, acceptance and adversity are abandoned. Apparently the cure for genetic mutation is as easy as a shot now. In addition to this, the movie skewers some of the most memorable characters in the X-Men books. Phoenix is no longer a cosmic deity, but instead just the pen-name of a really pissed off Jean Grey. Juggernaut, instead of being the near-invincible brother of Professor X, is just some mindless mutant with super strength (he was never actually supposed to be a Mutant to begin with). *deep breath* Skip this movie if you hold anything about the original X-men dear.
