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  Review by BRAT ★★ 3

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  every time an x-man would die i'd just brush it off as Fake News, figuring that they'd come back at the end like jean grey does in x2. what a fool i was.

  - RIP cyclops you were wildly disrespected & underdeveloped </3 
  -RIP jean grey you were also disrespected but at least you had more than 2 scenes </3 
  -RIP professor x even though you're somehow miraculously back at it in the post-credits <3

  -also RIP mcsteamy you're in this for like a second & have only one line in the whole movie lol but you'll be missed </3

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★ 6

  A dumb, annoying movie.

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★½ 8

  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.”

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  Review by George Clark ★ 19

  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…

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  Review by mulaney ★★★½ 3

  "charles xavier did more for mutants than you'll ever know. my single greatest regret is that he had to die for our dreams to live."

  CHERIK RISE

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  Review by ☆ Sophie ☆ ★★ 11

  The one redeemable thing about this film is that John Powell composed a good score for this dumpster fire mess of a film. Still, a blast to watch because of nostalgic elements and whatnot. Who's the better Jean Grey, Sophie Turner, or Famke Janssen?

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  Review by DirkH ½ 22

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I love comic books and especially the X-men. It is by far my favourite series there is and I collected the hell out them when I was a kid. When the first film was about to me made I was very sceptical. I was convinced that it wouldn't work and that they'd mess it up completely. While I had some problems with the casting, I really liked it. It was made by someone who loved the source his film came from. He even managed to improve on it with a stunning second film, which is something to admire. And then this happened.

  Now, before you all start saying: 'You only hate this film because you love the X-men so much'…

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  Review by ☆ Sophie ☆ ★★ 7

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  How is it they got everything in this movie wrong? Especially since they had two films worth of material and set up. I have to admit, I actually enjoy this one mainly because of its nostalgia factor, but its also a fun film. Here are the issues with the film. Magneto is extremely inconsistent in this one. And it bothers me because he is not an inconstant character. He's determined and knows what he wants without hesitation. Nightcrawler, who was a visually entrancing and emotionally interesting character in the last installment, has mysteriously disappeared from the X-Men.

  Rattner introduces new Mutants left right and center without developing their character or even their motivation one…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★½

  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?

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  Review by Kemper ★★★ 3

  “Not everyone heals as fast as you Logan.”
  
  This film was directed Brett Ratner and stars Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian Mckellen, Anna Paquin, Famke Janssen, James Madden, Rebecca Romijn, and Tyler Mane
  
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  I don’t despise this film like many people do, I actually don’t even dislike it. Sure this may be one of the worst films in the franchise but it is definitely better than Origins and Dark Phoenix, and I actually think the first half is really solid. I think majority of people will agree that the films quality dips in the last act and I can completely see why but I personally don’t despise it, they retconed on a lot of things that happen in…

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  Review by CinemaCl🎃wn ★★½ 4

  The 3rd chapter of the original X-Men Trilogy is a major step-down compared to the fluidity, complexity & kinetic energy of the previous 2 films (which were helmed by director Bryan Singer) and thus results as the weakest instalment of the X-Men franchise. Still, not everything is bad about X-Men: The Last Stand as it sure has its little moments but it never comes close to providing that comparative cinematic experience that lingers after the movie ends.

  X-Men: The Last Stand introduces more characters of the X-Men Universe & merges two story lines; one concerning Jean Grey who presumably died in the last chapter only to resurrect here as the most powerful mutant the world has ever known, and the other storyline…

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  Review by Mario ★★★ 9

  Yeah this isn't as good as the first two X-Men movies, but it has Elliot Page in it, so all the haters are wrong.
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