X-Men: The Last Stand

I am a huge X-Men fan; most of my X-Men knowledge comes from the 90's series on FOX. I have been waiting to see this movie since I saw the X2. Having finally seen it on DVD, I am very disappointed.

The entire movie series takes a major tangent from the comic book storyline, which I can understand. They have to make it more mainstream so that they can make more money. This movie however, really does the comics no justice at all (I probably sound like all those nerds that bitch about Lord of the Rings and how the book is better than the movie, but whatever).

This movie tries to create its own story with a great set of characters, but fails miserably. I don't mind straying from the comic book storyline, but give me a good story in its place. There were so many loopholes, so few X-Men, and so many villians. For a bunch of super-powered beings, everyone in this movie that died, did so quite quickly.

The first two movies in this series ran about 2 hours, but this one was a measly hour and a half. They could have put in another 30 to 60 minutes to better explain the story. It is by no means unusual to have a movie run two and a half hours now-a-days.

This movie did a piss-poor job ending what could have been a great trilogy. Since they killed off most of the main characters, do not expect to see a 4th movie.

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