Description: Experience the awesome power of The X-Men's epic, final battle. Join well-known mutant heroes and villains, and meet a cadre of all-new warriors -- including Angel, Beast, Juggernaut and Colossus -- in this thrilling, explosive adventure!
After a controversial "cure" is discovered, mutants can choose to retain their superhuman abilities or give up their unique gifts and become "normal." When peaceful mutant leader Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) clashes with his militant counterpart, Magneto (Ian McKellen), the battle lines are drawn for the war to end all wars.
Bursting with nonstop action, spectacular special effects and exclusive extras, X-MEN THE LAST STAND is a force of nature that "will blow you away!"
Amazon.com: X-Men: The Last Stand is the third installment in the popular superhero franchise, and it's an exciting one with a splash of fresh new characters. When a scientist named Warren Worthington II announces a "cure" for mutant powers, it raises an interesting philosophical question: is mutant power a disease that needs a cure, or is it a benefit that homo superior enjoys over "normal" human beings? No surprise that Magneto (Ian McKellen) and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants resist the idea that they need to be cured, and declare war on the human race. But it's a little tougher for the X-Men, led by Professor X (Patrick Stewart), Cyclops (James Marsden), and Storm (Halle Berry). If you're Rogue (Anna Paquin), for example, your power means you can't even touch your boyfriend, Iceman (Shawn Ashmore). To compound matters, someone previously thought dead has returned, and might be either friend or foe.
With director Bryan Singer having moved on to Superman Returns, the franchise passes to the hands of Brett Ratner (Rush Hour), whose best work is done in the big action sequences such as a showdown between mutant armies. But it's difficult to manage the sheer volume of characters when adding longtime comic-book stalwarts such as Beast (Kelsey Grammer) and Angel (Ben Foster), and one character in particular deserved better than an off-screen dismissal. And fans of the original Dark Phoenix comic book story might be underwhelmed by the movie's resolution. X-Men: The Last Stand is presumably the last film in the series, but the ambiguous ending leaves possibilities open. Look for the two writers most responsible for making the X-Men who they were, Stan Lee and Chris Claremont, in early cameos. --David Horiuchi
A CGI Bonanza! A computer-generated images festival? Yeah, basically that's what this movie was.....and I'm not complaining! It was great eye candy, just one great-looking scene after scene.
It featured wild-looking characters with comic-book action scenes and supernatural feats by a variety of characters, all of whom had special powers......but you know that. If you watched this film, you probably saw the ones that came before it.
Seeing the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco come apart and be transported to Alcatraz was very cool and a highlight of this special-effects. As usual, the old men, played by Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, were the best characters..
Was the film entertaining? Yes, and I hear this Blu-Ray transfer is really good, so I'm looking forward to getting that. Actually, the box set of all three "X" films looks like the best deal, since reviews indicate they're all outstanding in high-definition.
Meh What can I say? This film was a huge disappointment after the first two. I wasn't expecting exactly the same, but I was not expecting it to be this bad. The only reason I'm giving it two stars is because the actors and cinematography is good, the script however is awful. They throw in way too many characters, even for a fan like me, and throw get rid of key people like used Kleenex. My hope is that Bryan Singer will return and make another film to make up for this one, but it's a long shot. Not worth it.
Record time I received this DVD in record time and the movie is in like new condition. I am very happy with this vendor.
Something weird with this blu-ray version Now I am a fan of the X-Men movies. And this is a review of the BLU-RAY technology of this film and not so much the story line of the film itself. I actually own them on standard DVD, so I recently saw XMen-The Last Stand on blu-ray on an 1080p TV and I can tell you that blu-ray in 1080p will enhance tiny flaws and make them obvious. I notice this with other movies of this type (F4RSS - Fantasic Four Rise...) and the digital effects are so noticeable that they look fake. In the XMen, when Magneto moves the golden gate bridge it didn't look convincing. The actors look like actors on a stage and the bridge look fake, the cars sliding on the bridge looks as if they were being pulled by wires and I think I know why. Because the scene looks so clean that it didn't look like it was actually taking place outside, but rather inside of a computer. Now don't get me wrong, I love blu-ray and it works great for some films, but in this movie, things look so disconnected. Now on the otherhand when I reduced the resolution to 1080i, it looked remarkably more real. But at 1080p on a 50" plasma, 47" LCD and a 65" plasma, it looks like XMEN the Play instead of Xmen the movie. Xmen series is a good series and I would still recommend you buy it on blu-ray if you enjoy the series, its just that I wanted to talk about the higher resolution issue that, for me at least, seem to crop up with movies that has a lot of CGI shots.
Hard to keep the bodycount... I love the X-Men. I was a fan of the comics back when I was a kid, so I have an enourmous emphaty for the characters. Altough I've long been over my early younger days infatuation with superheroes the x-men and Batman universe still "call out" to me, so every time there is a movie or even television series based on both these universes i allways take a peek. Usually I end up dissapointed (aside from BATMAN TAS, Wolverine and The x-men The second Noland BAtman movie and the first two X-Men and Hellboys, there really aren't many sucessfull adaptations of superhero universes onto moving picture), so I have learned to lower my expectations considerably. X3 is not that bad. It's fun enough to watch and the action is allright. It has it's gripping moments and the actors where well casted. I adctually enjoyed it. But for a comics purist this movie will be maddening and insulting... Hell, I'm not one but I feel there were alot of choices that were pretty exagerated and that kinda got in my nerves. For example, I remenber the phoenix saga and this has little to do with it. Also the death of all those X-Men was idiotic and unnecessary. Juggernaut has nothing to do with the comics nor he has any relation with Xavier, etc, etc. It's a shame because the first two movies were pretty faithfull to the source carachterswise. For a comics purist this will be a maddenning film... But If your not a purist and you set your standarts a little low it's fun enough. It's not that terrible. Besides, as enjoyable as the first two X-men movies were, they werent THAT amazing to begin with...
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