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War looms between the followers of Charles Xavier Patrick Stewart , who preaches tolerance, and those of Magneto Ian McKellen , who advocates survival of the fittest.
Brett Ratner. Nov 19, Marvel Enterprises, Twentieth Century Fox. Hugh Jackman Logan, Wolverine. Patrick Stewart Prof. Charles Xavier. Halle Berry Ororo Munroe, Storm.
Famke Janssen Jean Grey, Phoenix. Anna Paquin Marie, Rogue. Rebecca Romijn Raven Darkholme, Mystique. Kelsey Grammer Dr. Henry 'Hank' McCoy, Beast.
Shawn Ashmore Bobby Drake, Iceman. Ellen Page Kitty Pryde, Shadowcat. Brett Ratner Director. Zak Penn Writer.
Simon Kinberg Writer. Avi Arad Producer. Lauren Shuler Donner Producer. Ralph Winter Producer. Avi Arad Executive Producer. Kevin Feige Executive Producer.
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June 7, Full Review…. May 27, Full Review…. June 28, Full Review…. June 5, Rating: 2. June 3, Rating: 2. November 2, Full Review…. View All Critic Reviews Aug 22, In my review of Return of the Jedi, I spoke about the baggage that comes with threequels and their tendency to be the runts of their respective litters.
That being said, the same person being in charge is not in itself a guarantee of quality, as Spider-Man 3 and Evil Dead 3 firmly demonstrate.
X-Men: The Last Stand has accrued a similar reputation in comic book circles in the 11 years since its release.
Whenever this offering is mentioned, fans of the first two films tend to either start foaming at the mouth, disgusted by some deep betrayal, or sigh dejectedly and make some resigned comment about Hollywood.
One could be forgiven, as a casual fan of X-Men, for assuming that this is the s' equivalent of Batman and Robin. Rest assured, it's isn't - but it is very much the Batman Forever of the series, representing a huge climbdown from the heft and skill of old.
A lot has been made about Bryan Singer's sudden departure from the series, with debate raging over how much of the resulting disappointment is his fault.
Singer left the project in July to helm Superman Returns, at a time when only a partial treatment of the story existed. Singer had intended to focus the third film around Jean Grey's arc leading on from X2, culminating in Jean committing suicide but her spirit surviving as something akin to the Star Child from A Space Odyssey.
Over the ensurng six months, the project was offered to numerous directors who turned it down, including Joss Whedon who was busy on his Wonder Woman project and Alex Proyas, who refused on account of the bad experience he had endured on I, Robot.
Matthew Vaughn, who had then just finished Layer Cake, signed on to direct in February , but even with the release date being pushed back Vaughn felt he did not have the time he needed to make the film he wanted.
Having had some say in the casting - including Kelsey Grammer and Vinnie Jones - he backed out before filming was set to begin in July, paving the way for Brett Ratner to come in.
Whether or not you think that Singer was right to jump ship Superman Returns being the indecisive stodge that it is , much of his influence remains in at least the first hour of this film, just as Tim Burton held some sway over Batman Forever.
The Phoenix emerges, knocks out Logan, and escapes to her childhood home. Magneto learns of Jean's resurrection through Callisto, and the X-Men arrive at the Grey home at the same time as the Brotherhood.
Magneto and Xavier go in, and both vie for Jean's loyalty until the Phoenix resurfaces. She destroys the house and disintegrates Xavier before Magneto and Logan can stop her.
Jean leaves with Magneto. However, the life forms in the camp are all decoy copies of Multiple Man. Magneto and the Brotherhood have gone to storm Alcatraz by using his magnetic manipulation powers to reroute the Golden Gate Bridge.
The remaining X-Men confront the Brotherhood, despite being significantly outnumbered, and arrive just as the military troops who thus far have been neutralizing the attacking mutants are overwhelmed by the Brotherhood.
Logan has Colossus throw him at Magneto and distract him long enough for Hank McCoy to inject Magneto with the "cure" and thus nullify his powers.
Army reinforcements arrive and shoot at Jean just as Logan had calmed her down. The Phoenix is awakened by the attack and disintegrates the troops in retaliation.
The Phoenix then begins to destroy Alcatraz and anyone within range of her powers. Logan realizes that only he can stop the Phoenix due to his healing factor and adamantium skeleton.
When Logan approaches her, Jean momentarily gains control and begs him to save her, and everyone else, by killing her. Logan fatally stabs Jean, killing the Phoenix, but mourns her death.
Sometime later, mutant rights are finally obtained and Xavier's school is still operating with Storm as headmistress.
Rogue reveals to Bobby Drake that she has taken the cure, much to his disappointment. Meanwhile, Magneto sits at a chessboard in San Francisco, seemingly human and weak.
As Magneto gestures toward a metal chess piece, it wobbles slightly. Elsewhere, Moira MacTaggert checks on a comatose patient [7] who greets her with Xavier's voice, leaving her startled.
Various characters were included at the suggestion of editor Mark Helfrich , who brought Marvel's X-Men Encyclopedia to director Brett Ratner, searching for mutants who could make appearance.
These include Phat , a mutant that is a very large man who can slim down to fit in a smaller space played by two actors, Via Saleaumua — "large mode" — and Richard Yee — "small mode" ; [28] Spike played by Lance Gibson , a mutant who battles Wolverine in the forest by extruding bony spikes from his flesh — the character was added because the editing team felt that the original cut of the scene portrayed Logan as a cold-blooded killer, which could be changed if another mutant attacked Wolverine before he struck the Brotherhood [32] and Glob Herman played by Clayton Dean Watmough , a mutant with transparent skin.
Mark Helfrich portrays an unnamed mutant with ash-gray skin. Various other mutants make cameos at the X-Mansion ; Shauna Kain and Kea Wong reprised their cameo roles as Siryn and Jubilee respectively, and three identical girls in the background in one scene are a reference to the Stepford Cuckoos.
Olivia Williams portrays Moira MacTaggert. Lee Ermey. Many fans believed this was Toad; however, the credits list him as lizard man and Brett Ratner confirmed it was Anole.
Avalanche and Vanisher also appear; however, it is not known who portrayed them. Bryan Singer , the director of the first two X-Men films, left the project in July in favor of developing Superman Returns.
The treatment focused on Jean Grey's resurrection, [37] which would also introduce the villainness Emma Frost , a role intended for Sigourney Weaver.
Overwhelmed by her powers, Jean kills herself, but Jean's spirit survives and becomes a god-like creature, which Dougherty compared to the star child in A Space Odyssey.
New contracts for returning cast members were made, as the actors and actresses had signed for only two films. In February , with still no director hired, Fox announced a May 5, , release date, with filming to start in July in Vancouver.
Brett Ratner , who was previously considered to direct X-Men in , and John Moore were both in the running to replace Vaughn during pre-production.
X2 co-writer Zak Penn was separately working on his own draft, and the two joined forces for a combined screenplay in January Kinberg wanted " The Dark Phoenix Saga " to be the emotional plot of the film, while " Gifted " would serve as the political focus.
This incomplete draft was leaked to Ain't It Cool News , who proceeded to write a negative review. The writers had to fight Fox's executives to retain the Phoenix plot, as the studio only wanted the cure story as it provided a reason for Magneto's conflict with the X-Men.
Still the disputes made them not add much for Jean Grey to do in most of the film's second half, as the executives considered the tone of the Phoenix story too dark for a mainstream summer movie, and that its appeal would be limited to hardcore fans rather than a general audience.
It's a harder character to relate to for the audience. The studio considered killing him off-screen with a dialogue reference, but Kinberg and Penn insisted that Jean kill him, emphasizing their relationship.
Kinberg and Penn were originally cautious, but grew to like the idea of killing off Xavier. They decided to write a post-credits scene suggesting the character's return for a sequel.
As the studio was simultaneously developing X-Men Origins: Wolverine , limitations were set on which mutants could be used for cameo appearances in X-Men 3 in an attempt to avoid risking character development for Wolverine.
The part of Nightcrawler was so minimal, however, that the studio felt it was not worthwhile to go through the long and costly makeup process, and the character was cut.
It also felt like he might tread a little bit on the terrain of Beast, in terms of similarities in the characters and their political standpoints in terms of dealing with their mutancy.
Afterwards came a scene in the Danger Room , which was considered for the previous X-Men films but never included for budget and writing concerns.
The writers tried to make the simulation not feel extraneous by showcasing some of the character conflicts and abilities in a " Days of Future Past "-inspired battle with a Sentinel.
Another repurposed scene was Magneto attacking the convoy to free Mystique, Madrox and Juggernaut, which Penn had previously envisioned for X2.
Ratner collaborated with Penn and Kinberg in rearranging the plot structure of the film. Kinberg agreed, as he previously argued with Penn about "blowing so many things early in the movie".
Much of the film was shot at Vancouver Film Studios , the same location of X2. The editing team was led by Mark Helfrich, who had edited all of Ratner's films, assisted by Mark Goldblatt in the action scenes and Julia Wong with effects-heavy footage.
According to associate producer Dave Gordon, "This is the biggest production ever filmed in Canada. It used to be X2 , now it's X3.
Dante Spinotti , a frequent collaborator of Ratner, replaced him, with assistance of J. Michael Muro. The two executives screened The Last Stand for their daughters, as well as the studio's female marketing executives, and the hand holding prevailed.
Gianopulos stated that the kissing "was all about sex, and we didn't want that. Even the actors had problems with getting full screenplays, the call sheets did not reveal all the characters, and many scenes were shot in varied ways.
In , Kinberg said of the wobbling chess piece at the end of the film, "There is a scene before the credits where Magneto's playing chess, and you see that he can just make the chess piece move, so there's a hint that he's starting to regain his powers.
The leap from there was that cure from The Last Stand didn't work exactly the way they thought it would, and so we just leaped forward however many years, and he's got his powers back.
To make sure the visual effects were made in just one year and without exceeding the budget, special effects supervisor John Bruno shipped the effects shots to eleven companies in four countries — United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Canada — and did extensive previsualization.
Bruno estimates one-sixth of the effects budget was spent on the Golden Gate Bridge scene, which employed both a miniature of the bridge and computer graphics.
The effects team would shoot one minute of footage outdoors each day at "golden hour," complete with explosives in order to have enough plates to composite the scene.
The effects team had to work without reference footage due to the city of San Francisco vetting any filming in the actual bridge, including aerial shooting as the area has restrictions on flying helicopters.
As compositing supervisor Matt Twyford detailed, "the elements consisted of cold, rainy night live-action footage from Vancouver, sunny day miniature elements, traditional misty day background plates of San Francisco, and of course the CG bridge and fx elements.
Powell was unsure if the Bourne work was "the kind of score that would fit the film" and Fox became reluctant on the composer's availability, given he was already scoring Ice Age: The Meltdown at the time of Ratner's contact.
However, Powell finished the Ice Age score early to accept the X-Men job even if it meant a tighter schedule. Powell included references to the score from the previous two films as "it all had to be in the same family, and the same language".
The marketing for The Last Stand was darker and more ambiguous compared to the two predecessors. Fox president Tom Rothman declared that the decision was made so the film would "be different from all of the other movies in the summer," with a campaign that "wanted people to stop and not have it be so immediately apparent that we're selling a movie.
We're interested in selling an emotion and an idea. Patrick Stewart also appears as Professor X. The site's critical consensus reads, " X-Men: The Last Stand provides plenty of mutant action for fans of the franchise, even if it does so at the expense of its predecessors' deeper moments.
Ebert and Roeper gave the film a "two thumbs up" rating, [ citation needed ] with Roger Ebert saying, "I liked the action, I liked the absurdity, I liked the incongruous use and misuse of mutant powers, and I especially liked the way it introduces all of those political issues and lets them fight it out with the special effects.
If only the rest of X3 had followed suit. Justin Chang of Variety said the film was "a wham-bam sequel noticeably lacking in the pop gravitas , moody atmospherics, and emotional weight that made the first two Marvel comicbook adaptations so rousingly successful.
Let's blow things up! It's a fast and enjoyable B-movie, though. My ass. Billed as the climax of a trilogy, the third and weakest chapter in the X-Men series is a blatant attempt to prove there is still life in the franchise.
And there is: just enough to pull a Star Trek and spawn a Next Generation saga. I'm probably going to be told off for saying that, but I genuinely believe it.
My X3 would have been 40 minutes longer. They didn't let the emotions and the drama play in that film. It became wall-to-wall noise and drama. I would have let it breathe and given far more dramatic elements to it.
Extras included three alternative endings, each with optional commentary by director Ratner; 10 deleted scenes ; audio commentaries from Ratner, the writers and the producers; and two hidden Easter eggs.
The two-disc edition came with a page commemorative comic book with a new story written by X-Men co-creator Stan Lee, his first original Marvel comic book in five years.
Even though they weren't made together like Lord of the Rings , this is really closure for the X-Men series. This is the last stand for sure.
A stand-alone sequel , [] The Wolverine shows Logan heading for Japan to escape the memories of what occurred during The Last Stand. Wolverine's consciousness is sent back in time, to his body in order to guide the younger Xavier and Magneto into preventing the events that lead to the desolate future.
The events of the film end up retroactively changing the continuity of the series , changing some events in films set after First Class , resulting in an altered timeline where Jean and Cyclops are still alive.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Theatrical release poster. Simon Kinberg Zak Penn. Release date. Running time. United States [1] [3] United Kingdom [1] [3].
Film portal United States portal Speculative fiction portal. London: British Film Institute. Retrieved May 10, For full data, click "Show more" link.
British Board of Film Classification. May 11, Retrieved May 2, The Dark Phoenix has woken within her, which has the ability to destroy anything in her way, even if that "anything" is an X-Man.
Written by rsanchez. The plot itself is not convoluted, but there are numerous mini-plots for just about every other character in the film. The huge number of plot lines Ratner chose to cast wound up limiting the film, removing key emotional elements.
The film just was not long enough to adequately cover everyone's story. The music did not add anything to the movie either, it seemed tacky and amateur.
Through length, plot numbers and music, X3 failed to properly and satisfyingly tie up the trilogy. Problems aside, X-Men did succeed in creating a fabulous action-driven film.
Ratner and Fox worked magic on the special effects side of things. I was particularly impressed with the opening scene, which found a 20 year younger Xavier and Eric Stewart and McKellan at the house of Jean Grey.
Despite being somewhat of a letdown, the film does bring in some interesting parallelism to the first two films.
Speaking of the first films, I recommend viewing them right before or soon after seeing the third, as viewing them reminds you that you do care about the characters being underdeveloped in X3.
Most should find the third entry reasonably enjoyable and miles ahead of poorer entries into the superhero genre Fantastic Four, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Ultraviolet, and the extraordinarily bad Batman Forever and Batman and Robin.
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Rated 3. To rate and review, sign in. Sign in. No one's rated or reviewed this product yet. Bruno estimates one-sixth of the effects budget was spent on the Golden Gate Bridge scene, which employed both a miniature of the bridge and computer graphics.
The effects team would shoot one minute of footage outdoors each day at "golden hour," complete with explosives in order to have enough plates to composite the scene.
The effects team had to work without reference footage due to the city of San Francisco vetting any filming in the actual bridge, including aerial shooting as the area has restrictions on flying helicopters.
As compositing supervisor Matt Twyford detailed, "the elements consisted of cold, rainy night live-action footage from Vancouver, sunny day miniature elements, traditional misty day background plates of San Francisco, and of course the CG bridge and fx elements.
Powell was unsure if the Bourne work was "the kind of score that would fit the film" and Fox became reluctant on the composer's availability, given he was already scoring Ice Age: The Meltdown at the time of Ratner's contact.
However, Powell finished the Ice Age score early to accept the X-Men job even if it meant a tighter schedule.
Powell included references to the score from the previous two films as "it all had to be in the same family, and the same language".
The marketing for The Last Stand was darker and more ambiguous compared to the two predecessors. Fox president Tom Rothman declared that the decision was made so the film would "be different from all of the other movies in the summer," with a campaign that "wanted people to stop and not have it be so immediately apparent that we're selling a movie.
We're interested in selling an emotion and an idea. Patrick Stewart also appears as Professor X. The site's critical consensus reads, " X-Men: The Last Stand provides plenty of mutant action for fans of the franchise, even if it does so at the expense of its predecessors' deeper moments.
Ebert and Roeper gave the film a "two thumbs up" rating, [ citation needed ] with Roger Ebert saying, "I liked the action, I liked the absurdity, I liked the incongruous use and misuse of mutant powers, and I especially liked the way it introduces all of those political issues and lets them fight it out with the special effects.
If only the rest of X3 had followed suit. Justin Chang of Variety said the film was "a wham-bam sequel noticeably lacking in the pop gravitas , moody atmospherics, and emotional weight that made the first two Marvel comicbook adaptations so rousingly successful.
Let's blow things up! It's a fast and enjoyable B-movie, though. My ass. Billed as the climax of a trilogy, the third and weakest chapter in the X-Men series is a blatant attempt to prove there is still life in the franchise.
And there is: just enough to pull a Star Trek and spawn a Next Generation saga. I'm probably going to be told off for saying that, but I genuinely believe it.
My X3 would have been 40 minutes longer. They didn't let the emotions and the drama play in that film. It became wall-to-wall noise and drama.
I would have let it breathe and given far more dramatic elements to it. Extras included three alternative endings, each with optional commentary by director Ratner; 10 deleted scenes ; audio commentaries from Ratner, the writers and the producers; and two hidden Easter eggs.
The two-disc edition came with a page commemorative comic book with a new story written by X-Men co-creator Stan Lee, his first original Marvel comic book in five years.
Even though they weren't made together like Lord of the Rings , this is really closure for the X-Men series. This is the last stand for sure. A stand-alone sequel , [] The Wolverine shows Logan heading for Japan to escape the memories of what occurred during The Last Stand.
Wolverine's consciousness is sent back in time, to his body in order to guide the younger Xavier and Magneto into preventing the events that lead to the desolate future.
The events of the film end up retroactively changing the continuity of the series , changing some events in films set after First Class , resulting in an altered timeline where Jean and Cyclops are still alive.
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May 27, Full Review…. June 28, Full Review…. June 5, Rating: 2. June 3, Rating: 2. November 2, Full Review…. View All Critic Reviews Aug 22, In my review of Return of the Jedi, I spoke about the baggage that comes with threequels and their tendency to be the runts of their respective litters.
That being said, the same person being in charge is not in itself a guarantee of quality, as Spider-Man 3 and Evil Dead 3 firmly demonstrate.
X-Men: The Last Stand has accrued a similar reputation in comic book circles in the 11 years since its release. Whenever this offering is mentioned, fans of the first two films tend to either start foaming at the mouth, disgusted by some deep betrayal, or sigh dejectedly and make some resigned comment about Hollywood.
One could be forgiven, as a casual fan of X-Men, for assuming that this is the s' equivalent of Batman and Robin. Rest assured, it's isn't - but it is very much the Batman Forever of the series, representing a huge climbdown from the heft and skill of old.
A lot has been made about Bryan Singer's sudden departure from the series, with debate raging over how much of the resulting disappointment is his fault.
Singer left the project in July to helm Superman Returns, at a time when only a partial treatment of the story existed. Singer had intended to focus the third film around Jean Grey's arc leading on from X2, culminating in Jean committing suicide but her spirit surviving as something akin to the Star Child from A Space Odyssey.
Over the ensurng six months, the project was offered to numerous directors who turned it down, including Joss Whedon who was busy on his Wonder Woman project and Alex Proyas, who refused on account of the bad experience he had endured on I, Robot.
Matthew Vaughn, who had then just finished Layer Cake, signed on to direct in February , but even with the release date being pushed back Vaughn felt he did not have the time he needed to make the film he wanted.
Having had some say in the casting - including Kelsey Grammer and Vinnie Jones - he backed out before filming was set to begin in July, paving the way for Brett Ratner to come in.
Whether or not you think that Singer was right to jump ship Superman Returns being the indecisive stodge that it is , much of his influence remains in at least the first hour of this film, just as Tim Burton held some sway over Batman Forever.
His fingerprints are all over the Jean Grey storyline, fleshing out the character and turning her into something truly dangerous.
Her arc is very reminsicent of Amy Irving's character in The Fury itself heavily X-Men-inflected , being as she is a young woman struggling to channel and contain enormously destructive powers that to a large extent she doesn't want.
There's even a sequence where Jean disintegrates people with her power - although it's not as bloody as The Fury's rated version.
If all the good parts of X-Men: The Last Stand lie in whatever Singer managed to contribute before departing, all of the blame for the bad aspects can be laid firmly at Ratner's feet.
The main problem lies in his sensibility - or, to be more precise, the complete lack of it. While Singer worked hard to build a compelling visual world to explore complex themes about racism, identity and alienation, all Ratner really wants to do to make knob gags and blow stuff up.
Despite having been in the running to helm the first X-Men film, he displays no deep knowledge or love for the mythology, being too obsessed with spectacle and cheap humour to put in the hard yards which this kind of story needs.
As a result of both Singer's influence and Ratner's laziness, the film ends up being deeply conflicted. The first hour has some of the substance of old, especially in the opening flashback and some of scenes involving discussions of the cure.
But Ratner doesn't delve as deep as Singer did, introducing the concept and then leaving it as a mere McGuffin.
The dialogue is more aggressively macho than before, and talky scenes are more readily broken up with needless editing.
And then there is the needlessly yandere-ish love scene between Jean and Logan, which feels like someone copy-pasted the sauna scene from Goldeneye into their fan fiction.
Building up their relationship is necessary for the pay-off, but this isn't an erotic thriller - you don't have to approach every conversation like it's a prelude to 12A rumpy-pumpy.
As things roll on towards the inevitably explosive conclusion, many of the interesting character arcs which are either introduced or carried over from X2 are left unfinished.
Grammar is a half-decent fit for Beast but is wasted in the role, and Rogue gets an especially tough break; while in X-Men she was arguably the central character, here all she does is go off, get the cure and then come back.
While in the previous two films the action felt like an interlude to or progression from the character development, here everything serves the need for everything to blow up at the end.
Aside from possessing a general contempt for the audience's intelligence, and a number of similar scenes the training simulations, the X-Jet's 'stealth mode' standing in for the invisible car , they also feature really dodgy CGI in the places that it's least needed.
It's not so bad when Logan is having his flesh ripped apart when Jean is in Dark Phoenix mode, but the sequence with the bridge is every bit as ropey as Pierce Brosnan windsurfing over the CGI wave.
Building up to the big battle at the end would be fine if it actually had scale, context and above all meaning. Where Jackson's battles went through given motions, ebbing and flowing to build character and generate tension, the final act of this film is uninvolving, bland and often ridiculous.
Vinnie Jones make the whole thing feel like a cut scene from Gone in 60 Seconds, and the actual ending involving Magneto at the chess board is both unashamed sequel bait and a huge anticlimax.
In spite of all its poor qualities, the cast of X-Men: The Last Stand do just enough to make the experience tolerable.
Famke Janssen is the stand-out, having a commanding screen presence which manages to pierce through the effects and hold our attention; in the scene in the woods, she even upstages Sir Ian McKellen.
McKellen and Patrick Stewart are both fine, though both have settled into 'established actor cameo' mode by the end, and Hugh Jackman continues to make his case for being the definitive Wolverine.
Had Days of Future Past never happened, this would have been a bittersweet farewell for the cast, but you can't blame any of them for not trying in spite of the poor script.
While it makes for watchable viewing during the Jean Grey sequences, there's ultimately too little meat on the bones and too few thoughts between its ears to either satisfy committed fans or compete with its two predecessors.
It id the worst of the original X-Men films, but had Brett Ratner been involved from the very beginning, it could have been even worse.
Daniel M Super Reviewer. Mar 08, While the main players are all great and the action is arguably the best in the saga, X-Men: The Last Stand is too fast and too rushed to make any sort of emotional resonance despite some truly interesting ideas.
Matthew M Super Reviewer. Feb 23, Every franchise has a low point. For some it's a scene or maybe a full act of a film. After two acclaimed outings to kick off the new age of the superhero genre, The Last Stand is just about as goofy and messy as you can get.
It nearly killed the franchise. The reason comic fans are still yearning for a Dark Phoenix adaptation is because this film did a poor job of giving fans anything that closely resembles the classic storyline.
In fact, what makes it even worse is it's hardly an adaptation at all. The first chunk of the movie certainly seems to indicate a Dark Phoenix direction, but once she has a big showdown with Charles Xavier in her childhood home, it becomes a movie way more about the cure than Jean Grey.
It also doesn't help that Jean Grey's phoenix alter ego resembles another absolutely insane Famke Janssen villain, Xenia Onatopp. Yes, she also turns to an intimate make out position in an attempt to kill a few of her victims.
Really, Brett Ratner? Ratner gets a bad rap for The Last Stand, and most of it is warranted. But there are some redeemable qualities to this film.
Plus, he did inherit the directing duties pretty late in the game after Bryan Singer left a few weeks before production began because of Superman Returns.
Although it still doesn't feel necessary at all, I definitely felt an emotional impact when Charles died and Wolverine killed Jean.
The way those particular scenes were directed and shot made for an emotionally resonant few scenes. The action is also amped up a bit.
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