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| Brett Ratner | |
| Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Kelsey Grammer, Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Vinnie Jones, Tanya Newbould |
| Friday, May 26, 2006 |
| 90 minutes |
| 20th Century Fox |
| Action/Adventure |
Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. |
Synopsis
The X-Men, mutant heroes sworn to defend a world that hates and fears them, are back! This time, with the help of new recruits The Beast and Angel, they must face evolution itself in the form of their former teammate, Jean Grey. Possessed with the cosmic power of the Dark Phoenix, the resurrected Jean Grey has become a danger to herself, her mutant comrades, and the entire planet. To stave off this imminent threat to humanity, a potential cure is discovered and processed to treat -- and ultimately eliminate -- genetic mutations, once and for all. Now, as the battle lines are drawn, the X-Men, led by Professor Charles Xavier, must contend with both Jean Grey's world-consuming powers, as well as the malevolent Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organized under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.
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Bryan Singer To Return To X-Men With X-Men: First Class According to Variety, Bryan Singer is set to direct the upcoming Twentieth Century Fox film, "X-Men: First Class". The film will be written by Jamie Moss and produced by Lauren Shuler Donner and Simon Kinberg.
Singer, who worked on the first two installments to the X-Men franchise, said that he finally decided to return to the project because he found a storyline he could get behind.
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Bryan Singer To Possibly Return to The X-Men? According to Dark Horizons, Bryan Singer said that he would be interested in directing a fourth installment to the "X-Men" franchise, if given the opportunity. The director said that he has even discussed it with 20th Century Fox already.
Singer, who spoke about the film while attending the South Korean Pusan International Film Festival, didn't state whether or not the film would be a spi...
X-Men Wolverine Sequel To Film In Japan Hugh Jackman recently spoke to MTV while on the red carpet of the Teen Choice Awards, giving some information on the upcoming Wolverine sequel.
Jackman told them that "Japan is where we're heading. We're starting to work on it now. We're in the first steps of developing that story." He also commented on the Miller and Claremont story arc, stating, "I think the fans love that saga. It's my fa...
World's Only Wax Figure: Hugh Jackman as Wolverine Headed for Co... One of the world's most popular anti heroes, "Wolverine," as portrayed by superstar Hugh Jackman in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," will be at Comic-con (7/23-26), exclusively presented in the Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment booth ( Booth #1429 - Twentieth Century Fox), prior to its arrival at Madame Tussauds Hollywood on Aug. 1.
"I'm thrilled for Wolverine that h...
Ryan Reynolds Talks Deadpool Ryan Reynolds, star of the upcoming "Deadpool" film, spoke with MTV Splash Page recently about the direction the film will be taking and the control that he has over the character as well.
"I get to be the authentication police, in a weird way. To their credit - the studio's credit - they want to make an authentic ‘Deadpool' movie; they want to make it as close to the source material as possi...
Anna Paquin, X-Men's Rogue, Will Return Anna Paquin, "Rogue", of X-Men trilogy fame, recently had an interview with IGN and discussed the possibility of being in more X-Men films. X-Men: First Class is currently being written by Josh Schawrtz, and he stated that the film would features characters such as "Iceman, Rogue, Angel, Colossus, Jubilee and Shadowcat."
Paquin said that she would definitely be in more X-Men films. "Absolut...
X-Men: Deadpool Movie Is Greenlit It appears that Ryan Reynolds will be reprising his " X-Men Origins: Wolverine " role in an upcoming "Deadpool" film. Like "Wolverine", this will be an origins story featuring Deadpool's smart mouth antics and incredible fighting skills.
The film was first conceived back in the early development of the &qu...
Wolverine Sequel in The Works Hugh Jackman's career won't be slowing down any time soon. The " X-Men Origins: Wolverine " star not only is already signed up for a sequel for the aforementioned film, but a few others as well.
The Wolverine sequel is said to be based on the ch...
Wolverine To May Multiple Endings On The Silver Screen According to firstshowing.net , 20th Century Fox has some tricks up their sleeve with the upcoming release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine .
Apparently, they have a number of different secret endings, and the various versions will be release in different theaters around the country.
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Purchase X-Men on DVD or Blu-ray - See Wolverine For Free It is almost May and May always brings summer blockbusters; this year is no exception with the latest X-Men film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine , hitting theaters May 1st, 2009. To celebrate the new entry into the blockbuster Mutant franchise, 20th Century Fox released all o...
Wolverine Trailer to Debut with Day The Earth Stood Still According to MenFilms.net, " X-Men Origins: Wolverine " will have its trailer debuted during the release of " The Day the Earth Stood Still ". December 12 is the release date for the film, starring Keanu Reeves.
The film, which is schedule...
More X-Men and Daredevil Films on TheWay According to Variety, there may be a chance of more "X-Men" spin-offs as well as a new "Daredevil" film.
Fox didn't have a good summer as far as films go. It seems that they are looking to revive sales with films that are already known to be popular. They may even do a project about Deadpool, a character from the "Wolverine" film, played by Ryan Reynolds, as well as a young "X-Men"...
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Warning: This Review Contains Spoilers.
Of all the powers of all the mutants in the X-men series, perhaps the most powerful of all would be the ability to make Kelsey Grammer look cool as Beast. It turns out the film makers don't have that power, but they do a decent of job of wrapping up the X-men trilogy in the action-packed X-Men 3: The Last Stand.
The story picks up where X2: Xmen United left us, Jean Gray is supposedly dead, the president is on the side of the X-Men and all is normal at the Mansion (if you call normal partaking in ultra cool battle simulations with our favorite X-men that we are treated to in the first few moments of them film).
A new main character, Mutant/Human Relations liaison, Beast (Kelsey Grammer who looks like a big, blue, hairy Fraiser Craine because after all he is a big, blue, hairy Frasier Craine…and really, he looks ridiculous strutting around in his suit and tie) learns that the government has secretly developed an antidote to the mutant X gene. Any mutant who takes the antidote will loose their mutant abilities and become a regular human.
For no reason other than to set up one of the movies jaw dropping effects involving the Golden Gate bridge, the government sets up its laboratory on Alcatraz Island which houses the origin of the antidote – a boy mutant who's power is to cure other mutants of their mutations just by being around them. Why the boy's power doesn't work on himself to cure him of his own mutation is never explained but hey those kind of paradoxical scenarios have no place in the comics. Do they?
By extracting and synthesizing his DNA the government is able to create the antidote which they plan to give on a voluntary basis to any mutant who chooses so. The Government (being the government) has secretly weaponized the antidote and armed plastic guns (guess who can't control these) with it.
Meanwhile, Cyclops is drawn back to Alkali Lake by the constant voices in his head of Jean Gray. After shooting his eye beam into the lake to quiet the voices Jean rises, more powerful than before, as the Phoenix and proceeds to seemingly kill Cyclops. How and why she is able to come back is not fully explained, perhaps the filmmakers decided to leave that story to the comics, but the uninitiated might be scratching their heads as to what is going on.
As it turns out Phoenix is the all powerful dual personality of Jean that has been suppressed for years by Xavier. Knowing all too well that unleashing her full potential would be catastrophic to herself and the world, Xavier has made the choice to keep Phoenix at bay.
Magneto, as seems to be his custom, sees the opposite of Xavier in Jean/Phoenix seeking to employee her limitless powers to his brotherhood of evil mutants as his weapon in the final battle of those who wish to see the mutant race extinguished from the earth. "They wish to cure us…well I say We are The Cure!" becomes Magento's rallying call to a band of cool new evil mutants to which we are introduced.
A final battle pits the evil mutants vs. the government vs. The X-men vs. ultimately the Phoenix herself in all out exhibition of each mutant's powers. Phoenix proves more powerful than anyone or anything…except adamatium…
Overall the movie is way to short; not stopping to explain enough of what is driving the action on screen leaving those unfamiliar with the comics with one big action sequence after another. Though the action is superb there are some particularly silly subplots including Rouges jealousy over the relationship of Iceman and Kitty Pride, and the whole Angel story. Both are unnecessary and steal away screen time form the main plot which is not fleshed out enough for the average viewer.
Hugh Jackman once again gives a great performance as Wolverine and sets up his character nicely for what is sure to be a spin-off Wolverine series. Wolverine comes off as the only character we seem to care about, and one of the few who survives.
Not without its flaws X-Men: The Last stand is a worthy effort and a fitting closing to an exceptional series. Despite Beast. --Eric English
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