Friday, September 21, 2007

"the cure" for the box office drought - X-Men: The Last Stand Reviews

X-Men: The Last Stand is a brilliant movie which is directed by Brett Ratner rather than the previous two X-Men movies by Bryan Singer. This was also a premiere movie at the Cannes Film Festival where critics did not need to say anything that would bash this adaptation. Not to name any movie names but let?s just say The Da Vinci Code. I am a big X-Men fan and I anticipated a much longer sequel has been announced that this is the final movie to end this trilogy. Hopefully Marvel changes their mind and decides to create another one but that?s just my opinion and probably others as well. This should not be the X-Men franchise?s ?Last Stand?. This movie was well directed and brought out the most important issue about X-Men which is the diversity between human beings and alienation of mutants alike. The Last Stand is about the mutant ?cure? with a combination with The Dark Phoenix story by Chris Claremont. I am very surprised that this movie was able to fit in the whole entire story line of the Phoenix because in the Marvel comic books for The Dark Phoenix it is a saga. But like in the previous X-Men movies this movie still has the conflicting battle between Professor Xavier which believes in a peaceful relationship for mutant and human prosperity and Magneto that believes in the survival of the fittest. The whole X-Men franchise cast is back Magneto (Ian Mckellen), Professor X (Patrick Stewart), Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), Storm (Halle Berry), Cyclops (James Marsden), Rogue (Anna Paquin), Iceman (Shawn Ashmoore), Pyro (Aaron Stanford), Mystique (Rebecca Romijn), and Colossus (Daniel Cudmore). And also with new additions to the X-Men team such as Beast (Kelsey Grammer), Angel (Ben Foster), and Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page). But there are also new additions to The Brotherhood which are the unstoppable Juggernaut (Vinnie Jones), Callisto (Dania Ramirez), and the rest of the morlock followers. Too bad Nightcrawler didn?t come back for this sequel. So many mutants and so little time I should say to see more of the impressive powers from X-Men: The Last Stand. But they finally show a lot of comic book features that were introduced to this latest addition to the X-Men Franchise. X-Men: The Last Stand most importantly describes the discrimination and alienation from different races and the pinnacle of civil war. Movie goers should watch this incredible comic book adaptation for its thrilling action sequences, and incredible performance by the actors. X-Men: The Last Stand is compiled with a star studded cast which lights up the big screen with a great show to offer. This movie does not disappoint and is to be a box office smash hit. This is finally an outstanding movie this month of May. Let?s start out with the cons for X-Men: The Last Stand, I saw some mistakes that made me pretty iffy during the movie which were how long the movie was, the compilation of The Dark Phoenix story in such a short movie, and some of the emotional scenes. If the movie was at least longer than the previous two X-Men movies than there would be much better feeling and a better hype of the movie. I love the action sequences and the visual effects but the movie seemed too much into the special effects and not that much about the story which was upsetting. Though throughout the movie there were much more pros to compensate for small amounts of cons listed. The atmosphere and the abilities of most of the mutants were absolutely visually captivating. Most of the ideas that were put into the movie were to entertain the comic book fans and fans of the franchise. Hopefully this movie will also stop the Box Office expectation drought with an explosive audience waiting to get a glimpse at the X-travagant blockbuster hit. To sum this movie review all up, I recommend this movie for everybody that loves action and superhero adaptation with out of your mind visual effects. And also for those X-Men fans out there, hope there is a number four and more to come even though there are X-Men character spin-offs.

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