"X-Men: The Last Stand delivers on all the momentum and
pathos of the first two installments"
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"Let us pause to consider a world in which Ian McKellen is in
every movie. It would be a lovely place, full of moments when
McKellen raises an eyebrow with the precision of a Swiss watch, or
purrs out a line with the kind of aristocratic understatement that
American actors never quite pull off, or cackles with perfectly
calibrated but ever-so-slightly shadowed glee. At the moment, we may
be as close as we'll ever get to McKellenWorld."
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"Surprise, surprise. X-Men: The Last Stand, the third big-screen
convocation of mutant shape shifters, weather changers, ice makers,
energy suckers, healers and telepaths from Marvel Comics, has
shifted the shape of the franchise from pretty good, if uninspired,
to terrifically entertaining."
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"Explosive, adrenaline-fueled fun, "The Last Stand" is likely to
be the best popcorn movie of the summer ."
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"X-III packs more action and razzle-dazzle visuals into its
104-minute running time than Mission: Impossible III,
Poseidon and The Da Vinci Code combined."
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"I enjoyed "X-Men: The Last Stand." I liked the action, I liked
the absurdity, I liked the incongruous use and misuse of mutant
powers, and I especially liked the way it introduces all of those
political issues and lets them fight it out with the special
effects. Magneto would say this is a test of survival of the
fittest. Xavier would hope they could learn to live together."
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"As more than one keen observer has noted, [Magneto and Professor
X] adhere to a stormy Martin Luther King-Malcolm X paradigm: two men
with opposing means to the same end. Stewart and McKellen perform
with tremendous seriousness. But they also bring great affection,
tenderness, and familiarity to their dynamic. They could be
brothers. They could have been lovers."
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"If this really is the last stand, it's a stylish farewell
indeed."
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"X-Men: The Last Stand expands on the themes of
discrimination and alienation explored in the first two films, and
still retains the franchise's signature kick-butt action features."
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"It perfectly completes and extends the first two films and
confirms this franchise's place in the pantheon of all-time great
Hollywood trilogies."
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