Synopsis
Take a Stand
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organised under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.
2006 Directed by Brett Ratner
When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organised under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.
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A not-terrible adaptation of Joss Whedon’s first Astonishing X-Men arc mixed with the dirt-worst adaptation possible of “The Dark Phoenix Saga.” Overall, it’s better than its reputation. There are worthwhile bits in here; McKellen gives one of his better performances as Magneto, the Danger Room sequence is a series highlight, Kelsey Grammer’s Beast looks and feels like he stepped right out of a Marvel comic, and I like the way Rogue’s arc plays out.
But yeah, the Dark Phoenix stuff, yikes and a half. Obviously everything involving the Juggernaut is a ceaseless nightmare. And of course the movies that followed it completely ignored its ending without explanation, which has happened so many times at this point we might as well officially call a series retconning inconvenient plot points from earlier films “X-Menning a franchise.”
Oh X-Men: The Last Stand, you are a true disappointment. A shallow shell of your predecessors, completely devoid of any substance.
The first attempt at adapting the Phoenix storyline ended in utter disaster and forced Fox to retcon much on its existence 8 years later with Days of Future Past. While the main players are all great and the action is arguably some of the best in the trilogy, X-Men: The Last Stand is too fast and ultimately too rushed to leave any sort of emotional resonance by the time it concludes while also holding some of the most disrespectful, disappointing, and frankly abysmal scenes the franchise has ever seen.
Swapping out Bryan Singer (a fact that he's stated he…
Ratner really isn't the problem; Singer was never a particularly dynamic shooter to begin with. No, the deal here is that it's patient zero for the current wildly overstuffed superhero movie. I'm actually surprised this doesn't run 150 minutes, given that it squanders two very potent, canonical storylines from the source (the Mutant Cure and Dark Phoenix) by mashing them together, sacrificing empathy for pace, a fatal mistake in a story about mutants being afraid of their own mutanthood.
It's too bad, because I think the idea of seen-it-all militant Magneto leading an army of angry and dangerously naive young mutants, or of Logan disintegrating and insta-healing as he crawls toward Jean are about as powerful and exciting a couple of images as X-MEN could ever hope to conjure.
Anyway remember when we thought this was as bad as it could get?