X-Men 3: The Last Stand
Today Laura & I took off to see X-Men 3: The Last Stand.
The movie starts shortly after the 2nd one, with Scott (Cyclops) still mourning the death of Jean Grey, and “Mutant Registration” has been forgotten in favor of the new “Mutant Antibody”. All the favorites are back: Wolverine, Professors X, Storm, Magneto, Rogue. Even some of the lesser players from previous movies have come back. And, of course, there are plenty of new mutants with strange and incredible powers.
If you enjoy the Mutant On Mutant action of the fighting, or the Mutant on Military action in some of the previous ones, then you definately won’t be disappointed. They’ve now discovered creative ways to combine their powers, so that now Magneto hurls cars that are ignited in air by another mutant, raining flaming debris. If you were more into the character building and internal turmoil of the mutants, then you may be a little disappointed in this “final” installment of the series.
You may have noticed that I put “final” in quotes. Well, that’s because while this is the final X-Men movie, it’s definately not the last time you’ll some of these characters. Hugh Jackman already has a new movie entitled “Wolverine” exclusively about his character’s background in development, for release in 2007. Ian McKellen has a movie entitled “Magneto” for release about the same time, detailing his & Charles first meetings while he was in the Nazi Concentration Camps. So while we may not see the X-Men united again anytime soon, we definately won’t have to wait very long to see them again individually.
Also, I was surprised by the gusto of the directors & writers to *Spoiler Alert* kill or neuter so many important characters. I won’t give names, but even if the X-Men return in force for another movie, it just won’t be the same.
In conclusion, it’s a great action-movie. While it fails a bit in character development (Who is Kitty, and why doesn’t she have any family? What’s Beast’s story? etc) it definately makes up for in action.
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