There are moments of genuine inspiration here, but they don’t add up all the way.

| Jul 22, 2024

At several points during The Last Stand, I wondered how many plots and subplots one film could handle, and ultimately, they all proved to be too much for one 104-minute movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 15, 2023

All marvel and little substance.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 21, 2020

A reinvigorating return to form for the franchise after the second-episode sluggishness of X2.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2020

A loose movie, really disappointing. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jun 28, 2019

The film is successful in creating a complex moral universe, mostly due to the set-up from the previous films, but Ratner doesn't seem to know what to do with it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 5, 2019

While X-Men: The Last Stand closes out a trilogy of stories, it leaves a sour taste...

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 3, 2019

Overall, it really was disappointing, but at least it delivered some action, tidbits for the fans and a few suprises. The problem was that by the time they were done, the suprises didn't seem to mean as much as they should.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2018

Ratner keeps the focus on the big questions.

| Nov 2, 2018

Under the assured, if sometimes chilly, direction of Brett Ratner, from a script by Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn (who also worked on the substandard Fantastic Four), the story here is built on different notions of loss.

| Nov 2, 2018

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.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 21, 2015

A mostly fun movie, but also one not given the full emotional room to breathe that it has over the course of the trilogy earned.

| May 15, 2012

It's kinda lame. There's slightly more to it than that, but basically, that's what X-Men: The Last Stand boils down to.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 7, 2011

X-ecrable.

| Jul 16, 2010

Sillier than the Singer versions, Ratner's movie is also -- for this less-than-reverent X-Men fan -- more satisfying.

| Jul 7, 2010

It's the first halfway decent summer movie so far.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 7, 2010

Nothing really feels at stake other than box-office opening-weekend numbers

| Aug 30, 2009

Though it's not the best installment of the series, with many, many present flaws, it sure is a very entertaining film...

| Apr 29, 2009

Yes, Ratner's music-video attention span and inability to linger on a shot ... blunts the impact of some of [the] big emotional moments. Nonetheless, he liked Singer's films as much as you did, and he hasn't tried to fix what ain't broke.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 23, 2009

X-Men: The Last Stand is far from perfect, but it does manage to move in the direction of a crowd-pleasing thrill ride without completely lobotomizing itself.

| Apr 21, 2009