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Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, and James Marsden back to the roles they played in the previous X-Men films. A 'cure' for mutancy threatens to alter the course of history, utants have a choice: retain their uniqueness, though it isolates and alienates them, or give up their powers to fit in.
[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.
The CGI is indeed magical. But watching this, I thought maybe we've seen too much magic. Maybe what we really need, even in summer action movies, isn't to see magic, but to feel emotion.
[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.
What a comedown, after the weirdly beautiful things Singer and his technicians did in the first two movies.
May 30, 2006
Stephanie Zacharek
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.