Here's the thing about "The Last Stand" it's as good as it could have been considering the fact this is a NEW director. Brett Ratner (Rush Hour movies, Red Dragon) directed this movie after FOX fired Bryan Singer from the job.
FOX was upset Singer was taking interest in "Superman Returns" for Warner bros. because there rival companies and Ratner was taken in as a replacement. Now while Singer undoubtedly is a masterpiece maker when it comes to these films, Ratner did pretty good.
There's some amazing fight scenes and effects in here and they did an amazing job bringing Beast and Juggernaut to life. Shadowcat finally gets some air time, and I gotta say, this movie definitely will leave you speechless quite a few times.
But in truth, it does fail in comparison to "X2". There's not enough air time for all the characters in here like they did in "X2", and Ratner clearly isn't very up and up about comic books since he didn't use the mutants he had properly or cleverly.
But Vox, I highly recommend you see it and don't miss out on it. It's not the best, but for a guy who took his first shot at doing a finale flick for a big comic film franchise, I think he did a pretty good job.
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