We are the X-Men who say "ni!"
Anyone else think Ian McKellen is having the best month ever?
Seriously, Sir Ian is the ultimate show-stealer. Even among a horde of strapping youths at least half his own age, the man manages to surpass them all in terms of awesomeness.
Overall, X-Men 3: The Last Stand pales in comparison to the first two installments, although it boasts several jaw-dropping scenes and a satisfactory finale that make it worth the trip to the theater--if you don't take it too seriously. The plot is half-assed, even if you don't compare it to X1 and X2 (something about mutants being shot with some miraculous cure extracted from a little bald boy that will "un-mutate" their genome...okayyyy...), although there are some interesting twists and turns. The Dark Phoenix plotline in particular was reasonably entertaining, despite the fact that she somehow managed to zap poor Cyclops within the first half-hour or so (*sob*). Deaths of important characters abound in this flick, which makes you wonder why they've left the ending open for a fourth sequel.
Like your typical summer blockbuster, X3 is all effects and no script. And it must take a pretty lousy script to make the likes of Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, and yes--even Sir Ian--sound like silly, formulaic action heroes. Many of the effects are rather unnecessary and clearly done for shock value, a la the destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge(Magneto couldn't have just pinched a car or something, stuck his posse in it, and LEVITATED it to Alcatraz??!) There is even a scene when Jackman's Wolverine launches into a speech, complete with sappy "HEROIC SPEECH ALERT!" background music, about how we are the X-men and we must carry on the legacy and we are strong enough to endure the plight of our people and blah blah is it over yet?
Anyway, I still recommend that you experience this movie: it's flawed, but highly entertaining and beautifully filmed. And there really isn't a bad performance--just a crappy script. And there's The Juggernaut, who delivered his much-publicized "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!" line to raucous applause in my theater. And there's Angel, who really doesn't get to do much of anything except look angelic, and very handsomely so. And there's Kelsey Grammer as the big, furry, blue beast-thing. And there's a clever little scene at the end of the credits that will make you go "WTF?" So take this film with a grain of salt; it probably won't live up to your expectations, but why not make Sir Ian a little richer?
p.s. There are spoilers behind the cut.
p.p.s. I was really hoping that Storm would pipe up with "X-MEN? Bitch, plz."
Seriously, Sir Ian is the ultimate show-stealer. Even among a horde of strapping youths at least half his own age, the man manages to surpass them all in terms of awesomeness.
Overall, X-Men 3: The Last Stand pales in comparison to the first two installments, although it boasts several jaw-dropping scenes and a satisfactory finale that make it worth the trip to the theater--if you don't take it too seriously. The plot is half-assed, even if you don't compare it to X1 and X2 (something about mutants being shot with some miraculous cure extracted from a little bald boy that will "un-mutate" their genome...okayyyy...), although there are some interesting twists and turns. The Dark Phoenix plotline in particular was reasonably entertaining, despite the fact that she somehow managed to zap poor Cyclops within the first half-hour or so (*sob*). Deaths of important characters abound in this flick, which makes you wonder why they've left the ending open for a fourth sequel.
Like your typical summer blockbuster, X3 is all effects and no script. And it must take a pretty lousy script to make the likes of Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, and yes--even Sir Ian--sound like silly, formulaic action heroes. Many of the effects are rather unnecessary and clearly done for shock value, a la the destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge(Magneto couldn't have just pinched a car or something, stuck his posse in it, and LEVITATED it to Alcatraz??!) There is even a scene when Jackman's Wolverine launches into a speech, complete with sappy "HEROIC SPEECH ALERT!" background music, about how we are the X-men and we must carry on the legacy and we are strong enough to endure the plight of our people and blah blah is it over yet?
Anyway, I still recommend that you experience this movie: it's flawed, but highly entertaining and beautifully filmed. And there really isn't a bad performance--just a crappy script. And there's The Juggernaut, who delivered his much-publicized "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!" line to raucous applause in my theater. And there's Angel, who really doesn't get to do much of anything except look angelic, and very handsomely so. And there's Kelsey Grammer as the big, furry, blue beast-thing. And there's a clever little scene at the end of the credits that will make you go "WTF?" So take this film with a grain of salt; it probably won't live up to your expectations, but why not make Sir Ian a little richer?
p.s. There are spoilers behind the cut.
p.p.s. I was really hoping that Storm would pipe up with "X-MEN? Bitch, plz."