Running as Root

X-Men: The Last Stand – 3 1/2 out of 5 stars

I'm not a reader of the many, many comic books for X-Men so my opinion is not affected by the movies possibly not living up to the original material. That being said, my minor problem with all of the movies is the feeling that there is too much back history to squeeze into a 1 1/2 to 2 hour movie. It leaves me feeling like I'm the only one not laughing at many of the inside jokes.

As always with the X-Men movies I feel that Ian McKellen completely eclipses the other actors and their characters. My thoughts while watching any of them vacillate between "where's Magneto" and marvelling at how much Wolverine gets his ass kicked.

The bigger disappointment with this movie is the DVD version. The deleted scenes and alternate endings are just plain weak. The 10 or so deleted scenes amount to things like Beast emitting a growl when meeting Wolverine or of two versions of Pyro telling Magneto they've found Mystique. One of the versions has Magneto with a beard. Well whoopety-fucking-doo. That aside, I like the entire series and it's one of the better movie trilogies around, though there is still plenty of room for the greatest of all time to emerge someday…

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