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From the very first scene where Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen get really bad plastic surgery
to the point where their faces start to pulsate, it worries me that the main focus of this
movie is apparently going to be Jean Grey. I have no problem with that, in theory, I
understand what the Dark Phoenix Saga entails. But come on, everyone knows that Wolverine
is such an attention-*** that the focus will be immediately shifted towards him.
And it is...but not immediately. It's like a game of pinball where we're just torpedoed
from character to character very much like in the first two. However, when Singer did
it, he would at least have a connection between one scene and the next, be it a line or an
image. Here it's just 'oh this character's done? BAM! We're done with her? BAM! What
about now? BAM!'. Which brings me to a certain Brett Rattner,
he gets bad rap for making movies that everyone claims to be like Michael Bay and they condemn
this film for reasons that I just cannot understand. If I had a nickel for every time there was
an emotional moment in this that was just so effective I would be able to fund the X-Force
movie. Seriously, Rattner is surprisingly really good at letting the camera sit still
so the incredible cast of actors can let their performance enhance the mood. I'm not going
to go listing off specific moments here, but rest assured, Rattner deserves more credit
for his direction here then he gets. If I'm going to slam anything about this movie,
it's three things. One, this film has some terrible CGI. We've gone past the bad 90s
influence back in X-Men and we've instead reached that time-period where movies like
Fantastic Four started getting a little lazy and looking like a 90s PC game. Also, there
are times where this script is bat-*** brilliant, like how they use Kitty to fight the Juggernaut,
and then there are times where it just completely misses the point. For example, I understand
why you have Iceman fight Pyro, fire and ice is screenwriting 101, but then again you have
someone that could make it rain heavily. In fact, we're supposed to believe Storm is leading
the new team, yet during the climax which most could consider a war, she gets one fight
with Calypso. That's it. At least I don't have to pretend that Cyclops is the leader.
I mean, you wanna talk ***, then that was definitely it. Finally, while I credit
Rattner for adding exponentionally to the emotional weight, he resorts to the shakey-cam
for what are some well-choreographed scenes which is always a no-no.
Once again, shout out to how awesome the blue people are in this movie. Kelsey Grammar is
a very talented actor and his prowess shines as Hank McCoy a.k.a Beast. Also, this is the
best Rebecca Romijn has ever been as Mystique. I love her in this movie and I legitimately
feel incredibly sad when she leaves the picture. X-Men: The Last Stand is nowhere near as bad
as the dipshits on imdb make it out to be. Is it cheesy? Yes. Is it more action-oriented?
Yes. Does it still create debate the way the first one did? It does it better than X2,
in all honesty. Once again, Magneto doesn't want to kill all of the humans here, we wants
to get rid of the cure, a justifiable act. The action by the humans is also justifiable.
Our debates this time are whether a cure for a demographic of people is necessary and ethical,
and also whether it is ethical to cage a person's talents if they may become too dangerous.
Seriously, I find no shame in saying that X-Men: The Last Stand is on par with Bryan
Singer's X-Men films.