X-Men - The Last Stand (DVD)

The first 2 X-Men films, cunningly titled 'X-Men' and X-Men 2', met with success, and not without merit. The first film set the scene, a film awaited for so long. The second built on the success and energy of the first and took it to the next level with a deeper plot. The third, here, is entitled 'X-Men: The Last Stand', so you can see what they're gearing up to, here, can't you? And the thrid film, released in 2006, does not disappoint. Historical In 1963, the X Men were created as a comic book idea of men and women possessing quirky mutations due to a defective genetic evolution. It took off, rating as one of the most popular comics, and still ...  Read the complete review

So, X-Men: The Last Stand! Well not exactly, the final frame of the movie suggesting otherwise. As if the producers are really going to turn their backs on a multimillion dollar franchise successes like this in a hurry! It is the end for many of the original cast though, hero’s and villains alike as this particular trilogy comes to a spectacular end, and one by one they fall. Or is it? As we don’t actually see them fall through the narrative trap door they could come back. That copout aside I have really enjoyed this superhero ‘threepeat’, the third film more than adequate, especially as it’s as not camp as the likes of the earlier batman movies and the like ...  Read the complete review

X-Men: The Last Stand Director: Brett Ratner Release Date: 2006 Runtime: 104 mins Approx. === Plot. === After defeating William Stryker in X-Men 2, the mutants are put under threat by the humans again, when they discover a cure to turn mutants back into humans. Some mutants are all for the idea, but then lots of others are not, and this causes the X -men and Magneto once again to set out on different paths to destroy the cure. With the X-men going to get it done the right way, Magneto goes round searching for his old allies, and a few other ones. And sets out on a path of destruction to get the cure and destroy the ...  Read the complete review

Supposedly, two out of three ain’t bad. But once you’ve seen two films in a trilogy and, assuming you enjoyed them, you’re not likely to want to miss the third. How many people can honestly say they watched the first two instalments of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy but then skipped the third? I even went to see the third of the “Matrix” films, despite being less than impressed with the second, so there was no way I could fail to see the current “X-Men” film, having thoroughly enjoyed the first two. After a brief prelude, the story continues from a point shortly after the end of “X-men 2”. Cyclops is struggling to come to terms with the loss of Jean Grey ...  Read the complete review

Questions were always going to raised about X-Men 3 with the departure of director Bryan Singer to the hugely anticipated "Superman Returns". In his place came (eventually) Brett Ratner someone who, from my perspective, not only had to produce something as good as Bryan Singer's previous X-Men movies, but had also to erase the travesties that were Rush Hour 1 and 2 (I cannot stand Chris Tucker). Ignoring the somewhat pointless "20 years ago" intros, "X-Men 3: The Last Stand" starts with the announcement of a Mutant cure developed by a bio-tech firm. The firm, which has set up a research facility on Alcatraz Island, has produced ...  Read the complete review