In X-Men: The Last Stand, a "cure" to the mutant X gene. Because of that, a war is started between Magneto's army called The Brotherhood and The X-Men.
Many die-hard fans of the comics despise this film for straying away from the lore. I haven't read the comics, but I have heard that this film strays from the lore almost as much as Oliver Stone strays away from historical facts. But since I am not familiar with the source material, I wasn't too bothered. But what I did not care for was the script.
The dialogue was riddled with cheesy jokes. There are also some parts of the story that I felt weren't explained very well. Like the fact that Jean Grey has a split personality and that other personality is completely evil. They barely explained that storyline and they should have developed that more considering that storyline becomes a huge part of the film! Some of the new characters introduced barely got any development whatsoever. Like the character of Angel. I think he's a cool character and his story sounds pretty interesting. He is the son of the creator of the cure and it would have been interesting to see how he and his anti-mutant father would have interacted. They show that like twice and only for a minute or two. His character appears in one scene and then reappears again once you have completely forgotten that he's even in this film! And it's like that for the entire film!
The one positive that I can give the film is easily the most action-packed and the action is very well filmed and highly entertaining. It is very clear that enormous budget went towards making the visuals look great instead hiring someone to make a better script.
Final Report: X-Men: The Last Stand might lack character development and great dialogue that made the first two films great, but the great visuals and fantastic action scenes will be able to satisfy the casual fan like me. (But maybe not so die-hard fans of the source material).
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