X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 229
Fresh: 131 | Rotten: 98
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.
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 46
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 22
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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Movie Info
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
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Hugh Jackman
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Halle Berry
Ororo Munroe/Storm -
Ian McKellen
Eric Lehnsherr/Magneto -
Famke Janssen
Jean Grey/Phoenix -
Anna Paquin
Marie/Rogue -
Kelsey Grammer
Dr. Henry "Hank" McCoy/... -
James Marsden
Scott Summers/Cyclops -
Rebecca Romijn
Raven Darkholme / Mysti... -
Shawn Ashmore
Bobby Drake / Iceman -
Aaron Stanford
John Allerdyce / Pyro -
Vinnie Jones
Cain Marko / Juggernaut -
Patrick Stewart
Professor Charles Xavie... -
Ben Foster
Warren Worthington III ... -
Dania Ramirez
Callisto -
Ellen Page
Kitty Pryde -
Michael Murphy
Warren Worthington II -
Shohreh Aghdashloo
Dr. Kavita Rao -
Josef Sommer
The President -
Bill Duke
Trask -
Daniel Cudmore
Peter Rasputin / Collos... -
Eric Dane
Multiple Man -
Kea Wong
Jubulation Lee / Jubile... -
Connor Widdows
Jones -
Bryce Hodgson
Artie -
Luke Pohl
Flea -
Shauna Kain
Theresa Rourke Cassidy/... -
Cameron Bright
Jimmy/Leech -
Adrian Hough
Mr. Grey -
Desiree Zurowski
Mrs. Grey -
Haley Ramm
Young Jean Grey -
Cayden Boyd
Young Angel -
Julian Richings
Mutant Theatre Organize... -
Benita Ha
Worthington Technician -
Omahyra
Arclight -
Ken Leung
Kid Omega -
Aaron Pearl
Team Leader -
Ron James
Prison Truck Driver -
Julian Christopher
Prison Truck Guard -
Makenzie Vega
Prison Truck Little Gir... -
Anthony Heald
FBI Mystique Interrogat... -
R. Lee Ermey
Sergeant -
Tanya Newbould
Dr. McCoy's Assistant -
Peter Kawasaki
Photographer -
John Pyper-Ferguson
Minivan Father -
Chelah Horsdal
Minivan Mother -
Justin Callan
Minivan Son -
Brenna O'Brien
Minivan Daughter -
Robert Hayley
National Guardsman Capt... -
Donna Goodhand
Rogue's Mother -
Stan Lee
Waterhose Man -
Chris Claremont
Lawnmower Man -
Mei Melançon
Psylocke -
Via Saleaumua
Phat -
Emy Aneke
Alcatraz Lieutenant -
Richard Yee
Little Phat -
Alexis Ferris
Minivan Son #2 -
Lloyd Adams
Lizard Man -
Lance Gibson
Spike -
Ron Blecker
Commander -
Zoltain Buday
Mutant Cure #1 -
Brad Kelly
Prison Truck Guard -
Mi Jung Lee
Newscaster -
Clayton Watmough
Glob Herman
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All Critics (233) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (131) | Rotten (98) | DVD (37)
Sillier than the Singer versions, Ratner's movie is also -- for this less-than-reverent X-Men fan -- more satisfying.
Top CriticX-Men: The Last Stand has shifted the shape of the franchise from pretty good, if uninspired, to terrifically entertaining.
[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.
What a comedown, after the weirdly beautiful things Singer and his technicians did in the first two movies.
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.
[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.
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.
X-ecrable.
It's the first halfway decent summer movie so far.
Nothing really feels at stake other than box-office opening-weekend numbers
Though it's not the best installment of the series, with many, many present flaws, it sure is a very entertaining film...
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.
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.
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.
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.
There's a lot going on in this film %u2013- too much, really...
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.
The results are less than x-citing.
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.
A surefire kiddie crowd-pleaser, given the teeny-bop penchant for over-stimulating computer game warfare.
A good if undistinguished capper to the trilogy.
The action is non stop and the special effects jaw dropping, with a scene involving San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge an incredible highlight
Ratner has met with much skepticism from fans afraid that he would botch the franchise. He actually makes this an enjoyable summer blockbuster that generally lives up to the predecessors.
Disposable entertainment that passes the time with flickering images of flashy camera cuts and explosions before disappearing from memory before the popcorn is digested...
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Super Reviewer
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. Firstly "the plot" so to speak, is incomprehensible and deeply flawed and apart from picking up on our heroes mission to protect a mutant cure nothing in it makes sense. Secondly, the political subtext and the debates and interpretations of discrimination discussed in the first two art house masterpieces are appaulingly replaced with loads of unnecessary violence and annoyingly loud explosions galore. There's also a lot of painfully cheesy dialogue and minus the developed characters Bryan Singer brought to the original and X2. If you watch this lackluster you aren't being a true X-Men fan, your giving hack directors like Brett Ratner money for ruining something you truly love and care about. It's intolerable, it's boring, it's got no character interaction and nothing ever actually adds up to anything. However, the most rotten and unforgivable thing about this film is how anticlimatic and depressingly heartless it acts when it comes to the demutantisation of Mystique and the tragic death of Scott and Charles Xavier. The producers and screenwriters obviously had no care for the fans whatsoever because it seems to me like they knew nothing about X-Men making it and what it actually means to some people.
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- Jean Grey/Phoenix: Logan, you're making me blush...
- Logan/Wolverine: You're reading my thoughts?
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- Cain Marko / Juggernaut: Don't you know who I am. I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!
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- Eric Lehnsherr/Magneto: In chess, the pawns go first.
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- Professor Charles Xavier: Since the dawn of existence, there have always been moments when the course of history shifted. Such a turning point is upon us now: the conflict between the better and worst angels of our very nature, whose outcome will change our world so greatly there will be no going back. I do not know if victory is possible. I only know that great sacrifice will be required. And because the fate of many will depend on a few, we must make the last stand.
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- Bobby Drake / Iceman: It's not what I wanted.
- Marie/Rogue: No. It's what I wanted.
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- John Allerdyce / Pyro: You should have gone back to school.
- Bobby Drake / Iceman: You should have stayed.
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