It is time for mutants to retain their uniqueness and remain isolated or accept the cure. There seems to be a discrepancy between Xavier and Magneto's men on this one.
[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.
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
May 26, 2006
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.
