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Sillier than the Singer versions, Ratner's movie is also -- for this less-than-reverent X-Men fan -- more satisfying.
X-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.
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.
X-Men battle for their lives yet again. Tweens OK.
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.
Works best if approached as an escape designed for an audience with a penchant for the sort of incessant over-stimulation one gets from a computer game.
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