The best summer action movie. ***spoiler*** - X-Men: The Last Stand Reviews

The plot is full of tragic and expected events. Phoenix, a class 5 mutant/river/hurricane (you get the picture) as we all knew was going to play a central role to the plot opposite Hugh Jackman whose usually excellent performance is this timed seemingly dragged down by the side characters. You can tell they all wanted more time. It's like Magneto telling Pyro, "Stand back and let the pawns go first". Indeed there are perhaps too many pawns stealing the star power in this flick. Surrounding this plot is an excessive amount of controversy around cures. At times it seems as belabored as AI's corn starch thick "pinocchio-blue fairy" allusion but by the end, it seemed to have been just subtle enough not to make this a mutant object lesson in pharmacology and disability rights. The directing did seem to pull off a few good onliners for Hugh Jackman as well as some not so good one liners reminiscent of Han Solo's famous "laugh it up fuzzball" in reference to Chewbacca, I mean Beast as well as a short little "Noooo-argh!" to avoid stealing a Darth Vader line. This film will provide a bit of tragedy as Charles, Scott die, Mystique and Magneto are cured of their mutant power and...well, I'm not going to spoil all of it but let's just say the very end leaves this open for perhaps a final, last stand after this.