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X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

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Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 228
Fresh: 129 | Rotten: 99

Director Brett Ratner has replaced the heart and emotion (and character development) of the previous X-Men films with more action and explosions. The film should still provide ample entertainment, but viewers may truly wish this to be the Last Stand.

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Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 20

Director Brett Ratner has replaced the heart and emotion (and character development) of the previous X-Men films with more action and explosions. The film should still provide ample entertainment, but viewers may truly wish this to be the Last Stand.

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The explosive X-Men motion picture trilogy officially draws to a close with this release that finds Rush Hour director Brett Ratner stepping in for Bryan Singer to tell the tale of a newly discovered mutant "cure," and the polarizing effect it has on mutant/man relations. With the pressure on mutants to give up their powers and pledge alliance with the human race reaching a critical turning point, Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) urges tolerance and understanding as his nemesis Magneto

PG-13, 1 hr. 45 min.

Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Simon Kinberg, Zak Penn

Oct 3, 2006

$234.2M

20th Century Fox

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Critic Reviews for X-Men: The Last Stand

All Critics (232) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (136) | Rotten (99) | DVD (37)

Sillier than the Singer versions, Ratner's movie is also -- for this less-than-reverent X-Men fan -- more satisfying.

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Newsweek | Comment
David Ansen
Newsweek
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X-Men: The Last Stand has shifted the shape of the franchise from pretty good, if uninspired, to terrifically entertaining.

June 22, 2006 Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal | Comments (2)
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
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[I] found myself strangely moved by the sense of relationships, friendly and unfriendly, coming to an end in a dull return to normality in the world of humans and mutants.

June 7, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comment
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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What a comedown, after the weirdly beautiful things Singer and his technicians did in the first two movies.

May 30, 2006 Comment
David Denby
New Yorker
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The Last Stand is a hugely ambitious picture, and it would have been far more successful if Ratner had scaled it down to focus more on the interaction between the characters.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment (1)
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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[Director] Ratner makes a hash of the story and characters his predecessor brought to such complex, sympathetic life, delivering a pumped-up exercise in mayhem, carnage and blunt-force trauma.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
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It's kinda lame. There's slightly more to it than that, but basically, that's what X-Men: The Last Stand boils down to.

January 7, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | Comment
Joshua Starnes
ComingSoon.net

X-ecrable.

July 16, 2010 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment
Film4 Source: Film4

It's the first halfway decent summer movie so far.

July 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Movies.com | Comment
Dave White
Movies.com

Nothing really feels at stake other than box-office opening-weekend numbers

August 30, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

Though it's not the best installment of the series, with many, many present flaws, it sure is a very entertaining film...

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Yes, Ratner's music-video attention span and inability to linger on a shot ... blunts the impact of some of [the] big emotional moments. Nonetheless, he liked Singer's films as much as you did, and he hasn't tried to fix what ain't broke.

April 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | Comment
Gary Susman
Boston Phoenix

X-Men: The Last Stand is far from perfect, but it does manage to move in the direction of a crowd-pleasing thrill ride without completely lobotomizing itself.

April 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinefantastique | Comment
Steve Biodrowski
Cinefantastique

As usual, character development is dashed off in quick sketches while mutant powers are shown in all the lavish detail that $200 million worth of computers can generate; the thrill may dissipate over time, but it's great fun while it lasts.

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

X-Men battle for their lives yet again. Tweens OK.

July 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Cynthia Fuchs
Common Sense Media

The film exists solely to give the Comic Book Guys of the world a chance to see all their favorite action figures, life size and in full form.

April 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Projection Booth | Comment
Rob Humanick
Projection Booth

There's a lot going on in this film %u2013- too much, really...

February 28, 2008 Full Review Source: BrandonFibbs.com | Comment
Brandon Fibbs
BrandonFibbs.com

It has no passion, no connection to where we are now, and in a series whose stories have heretofore spoken dark truths about American intolerance, that matters.

July 23, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

The results are less than x-citing.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | Comment
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

It may be just another superhero movie (or several of them, all frantically playing out at the same time), but it delivers everything you could want from the genre several times over.

July 2, 2007 Full Review Source: musicOMH.com | Comment
Anton Bitel
musicOMH.com
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Brett Ratner's climax to the X-Men trilogy is an insult to it's intellectual and passionate predecessors that are among the best comic book hero films of all time. Anyone who is a genuine fan of the X-Men movies should understand there are so many things wrong with this dumb, dull and heartless explosion fest.

May 4, 2012
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Super Reviewer

There is a cure for mutants. Do they choose to be unique or fit in with humans?

August 4, 2007
thmtsang
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X-Men: The Last Stand Quotes

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    1. Jean Grey/Phoenix: You'll die for them?
    2. Logan/Wolverine: No, not for them, for you..
    3. Jean Grey/Phoenix: [shocked, started crying] Save me..
    4. Logan/Wolverine: I love you... [stabbed Jean]
    – Submitted by Rawballs B (2 months ago)
    1. Eric Lehnsherr/Magneto: And that's thats why the pawns go first.
    – Submitted by Lewis H (3 months ago)
    1. Eric Lehnsherr/Magneto: Charles always wanted to build bridges.
    – Submitted by Alexander Bradley H (9 months ago)
    1. The President: Let me out of here! Don't you know who I am? I'm the President of the United States.
    2. Prison Truck Guard: Oh, Mr. President. SHUT UP!
    – Submitted by Alexander Bradley H (9 months ago)
    1. Logan/Wolverine: [After Collossus throws him at Magneto] Rah!
    2. Eric Lehnsherr/Magneto: [Stops Logan from killing him by using his powers] You never learn, do you.
    3. Logan/Wolverine: Actually, I do.
    4. Dr. Henry "Hank" McCoy/Beast: [Jumps and lands right behind Magneto and stabs him with four cure needles]
    5. Eric Lehnsherr/Magneto: [Shocked] I'm... I'm...
    6. Logan/Wolverine: ...one of them.
    – Submitted by Alexander Bradley H (9 months ago)

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