X-Men: The Last Stand

X-Men: The Last Stand (also known as X3) is a superhero film, based on the Marvel Comics superhero team The X-Men, and is the sequel to 2003's X2: X-Men United, as well as the third installment in the X-Men film series. It was directed by Brett Ratner and written by Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn.

Plot
The discovery of a cure for mutations leads to a turning point for mutants. They may now choose to give up their powers and become fully human or retain their uniqueness and remain isolated. War looms between the followers of "Professor X" Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), who preaches tolerance, and those of Magneto (Ian McKellen), who advocates survival of the fittest, while Jean Grey unleashes the power of the Phoenix.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The story is pretty weak. It attempts to loosely adapt two X-Men stories, The Dark Phoenix Saga and Gifted, at the same time. While Gifted is decent, The Dark Phoenix Saga is terrible.
 * 2) *The Dark Phoenix story is unnecessary and is treated like a subplot.
 * 3) *The Phoenix Force in this movie was ruined by the Fermi Paradox.
 * 4) Many characters have mediocre to terrible treatment in this film:
 * 5) *Cyclops, who was already very underused in the franchise so far, gets very little screen-time (only 4 minutes) and is abruptly killed off due to his actor, James Marsden, getting cast in Superman Returns, which was released around the same time.
 * 6) *Speaking of sceeen time, Professor X also considerably has less screen time compared to the previous movies.
 * 7) *Warren Worthington III (AKA Angel) gets very little screen time too and serves as filler since he doesn't join the X-Men.
 * 8) *Rogue is completely wasted. Unlike the last two films where she had some notable moments and even was able to use her powers and skills such as flying the X-Jet; here, she's pretty much a non-factor, disappearing about halfway through the film and then coming back for one scene in the ending.
 * 9) *Characters from the previous films such as Nightcrawler were left out without any explanation.
 * 10) *The love triangle between Bobby, Rogue, and Kitty is very clichéd and contributes nothing to the plot.
 * 11) *Little-to-no character development. For example, Colossus was supposed to have a much larger role in this movie, but he had more speaking lines in X2. The only new character that was developed well was Kitty Pryde.
 * 12) *Confusing changes regarding the usual comic book characterizations of Psylocke and Multiple Man, who are depicted as villains in this movie. Psylocke notably has different abilities compared to her comic counterpart.
 * 13) *Juggernaut is poorly adapted from the source material who is now an armored mutant wrestler than a giant bulky brute, especially his infamous line "I'm the Juggernaut, b*tch!".
 * 14) Wolverine being the main character in an X-Men movie is starting to get old especially because his story was perfectly completed in the previous movie.
 * 15) The ending is weirdly written and set up.
 * 16) *Kitty Pryde at Xavier's grave isn't that special, since there were other characters who had a stronger connection with him.
 * 17) *Rogue gets rid of her powers so she can touch Bobby without killing him. Not only does this remove any tension, but it's also an out of character choice. There's an alternate scene where she tells Bobby that she kept her powers, which fits her character better.
 * 18) *Magneto begins gaining his powers back, making the cure pointless.
 * 19) *Xavier comes back to life without any explanation on how he returned, making his death pointless.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The action scenes are still very cool for the most part.
 * 2) The special effects are awesome.
 * 3) Pretty good acting, especially from Kelsey Grammer as Hank "Beast" McCoy.
 * 4) Memorable quotes like I'M THE JUGGERNAUGHT BITCH!
 * 5) Magneto is given a much larger presence in this movie compared to the last two movies.

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Reception
X-Men: The Last Stand received mixed reviews from critics and fans alike, with many considering it to be one of the weakest films of the entire franchise (alongside X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: Apocalypse, Dark Phoenix and The New Mutants).

Trivia

 * Bryan Singer, the director of the two previous films, admitted that he regrets not directing this movie.
 * Matthew Vaughn was the film's original director but quit right before the start of filming. Though he originally claimed that this was because he didn't want to be separated from his family, he later admitted that he actually quit because of studio interference. Vaughn would return to the franchise years later to direct X-Men: First Class, and co-write X-Men: Days of Future Past.
 * The events of the film, along with those of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, were retconned out of existence in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
 * In the special features of the DVD, an alternate scene is shown in which Rogue does not eventually take the cure and, in fact, she still has her gloves on.
 * Also, an alternate ending of Wolverine returning to the bar in Canada from the first film is shown.
 * The events of the video game, mh:awesomegames: X-Men: The Official Game, takes place between the events of X2: X-Men United and this movie. The game's plot even explains why Nightcrawler is not in this movie, that he left the X-Men because the violence clashed with his peaceful lifestyle. This is a rather unique case regarding movie tie-in video games.
 * In reality, Alan Cumming refused to reprise his role as Nightcrawler because he did not want to go through the ten-hour makeup procedure that he previously went through in X2.
 * The infamous "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!" the line was actually first used in a viral video where footage from mh:besttvshows: X-Men: The Animated Series was dubbed over with vulgar language.
 * After the worse reception of Dark Phoenix, the film is looked at in a better light.