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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 2274
Released: October 3, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Experience the awesome power of The X-Men's epic final battle. Join well-known mutant heroes and villains and meet a cadre of all-new warriors -- including Angel Beast Juggernaut and Colossus -- in this thrilling explosive adventure!After a controversial cure is discovered mutants can choose to retain their superhuman abilities or give up their unique gifts and become normal. When peaceful mutant leader Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) clashes with his militant counterpart Magneto (Ian McKellen) the battle lines are drawn for the war to end all wars.Bursting with nonstop action spectacular special effects and exclusive extras X-MEN THE LAST STAND is a force of nature that will blow you away! System Requirements:Running Time: 104 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: PG-13 UPC: 024543373926 Manufacturer No: 2237392
Description of X-Men - The Last Stand (Widescreen Edition):
X-Men: The Last Stand is the third installment in the popular superhero franchise, and it's an exciting one with a splash of fresh new characters. When a scientist named Warren Worthington II announces a "cure" for mutant powers, it raises an interesting philosophical question: is mutant power a disease that needs a cure, or is it a benefit that homo superior enjoys over "normal" human beings? No surprise that Magneto (Ian McKellen) and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants resist the idea that they need to be cured, and declare war on the human race. But it's a little tougher for the X-Men, led by Professor X (Patrick Stewart), Cyclops (James Marsden), and Storm (Halle Berry). If you're Rogue (Anna Paquin), for example, your power means you can't even touch your boyfriend, Iceman (Shawn Ashmore). To compound matters, someone previously thought dead has returned, and might be either friend or foe.
With director Bryan Singer having moved on to Superman Returns, the franchise passes to the hands of Brett Ratner (Rush Hour), whose best work is done in the big action sequences such as a showdown between mutant armies. But it's difficult to manage the sheer volume of characters when adding longtime comic-book stalwarts such as Beast (Kelsey Grammer) and Angel (Ben Foster), and one character in particular deserved better than an off-screen dismissal. And fans of the original Dark Phoenix comic book story might be underwhelmed by the movie's resolution. X-Men: The Last Stand is presumably the last film in the series, but the ambiguous ending leaves possibilities open. Look for the two writers most responsible for making the X-Men who they were, Stan Lee and Chris Claremont, in early cameos. --David Horiuchi
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X-Men - The Last Stand (Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
GOOD MOVIE!! 
2008-07-06 - My Husband has all the X-Men movies now and he really liked this one. We like the widescreen because you can see more.
Good end to the trilogy 
2008-07-04 - I have all three of the X Men movies now and this was good, action packed ender to the trilogy. I hope they make another one!
The Worst X-Men Movie of All 
2008-07-04 - Let me start by saying Bryan Singer made the biggest mistake of his life turning down X-Men 3 for Superman Returns (what a bomb). They got one of the biggest hack directors in Hollywood, Brett Ratner to finish off what could have been a stellar trilogy. Instead, we got a crappy "reinterpretation" of one of the best X-Men stories of all time, the dark Phoenix saga. Ratner strips this storyline of all emotion, even stripping Jean Gray/Phoenix of her fire powers (uh, isn't that the point of the entire character?) The last shot of X2 was of the Phoenix's fire emblem in the lake, which is completely abandoned in this travesty. The other two sticking points of this hack script are the off-screen death of Scott Summers/Cyclops WTF? and the death of Professor Xavier, the mainstay of this entire franchise. I sincerely hope the Wolverine and Magneto movies return some semblance of dignity to this franchise, which was Marvel's strongest, after what this asinine director did to this film.
The best of the three.
2008-06-30 - I loved the first one.
The second one really didn't do much for me.
This one?
LOVED IT!!!
Fantastic acting from the entire cast.
Excellent direction, fx that were VERY impressive, an overall awesome movie.
I loved the ending, will this be the end of X - Men? Or as the ending suggests, will there be more?
As long as their as good as this one, I hope so.
If your new to X - Men, start with part one.
Part two is worth checking out, but part three is where everyone and everything really shines.
Highly recommended.
I hope this isn't the end of the X-men movies.
2008-06-29 - This movie had a lot of everything, and I loved it. I hope it's not really their Last Stand.
Briefly, we dealt with Death and Resurrection, concerning Jean Grey (Phoenix), Cyclops & Professor X.
We see some early insights into the power of Jean Grey. We see more insights into the romantic tensions between Jean Grey and Wolverine.
A good element of the story is the invention of a "cure" for the mutants. They will allegedly be allowed to choose whether or not they want the cure. But you just have to know the government is likely to take that choice away.
Magneto gathers his Evil Mutants to fight the "normal" people who have created the cure. This involves moving the Golden Gate bridge to allow them to move to Alcatraz Island.
Some of my favorite X-men return in this movie, and many new ones are introduced. One of my favorites is Kelsey Grammar (Frazer) as the Beast. It is such a great match.
The biggest problem with this movie is the abundance of characters, in the X-men and the Evil Mutants. So many characters get only a few moments to shine.
Again, I think this is a result of a valiant effort to cover the wide range of characters and changes over the past 40+ years of the X-men's history.
My biggest regret was that I didn't see this in a theater... I lost some of the dramatic impact, and missed the audience reaction.
But I can save the DVDs for a long time.
