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Running time 107 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $150 million Box office $373.1 million X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a 2009 American based on the fictional character. It is the fourth installment of the and the first spin-off of its standalone Wolverine trilogy.

The film was directed by, written by and, and produced by and starring. It co-stars,. The film is a / focusing on the violent past of the Wolverine and his relationship with his half-brother.

The plot details Wolverine's childhood as James Howlett , his early encounters with Major, his time with and the bonding of Wolverine's skeleton with the indestructible metal during the program. The film was mostly shot in Australia and New Zealand, with Canada also serving as a location. Filming took place from January to May 2008. Production and post-production were troubled, with delays due to the weather and Jackman's other commitments, an incomplete screenplay that was still being written in Los Angeles while principal photography rolled in Australia, conflicts arising between director Hood and Fox's executives, and an unfinished being leaked on the Internet one month before the film's debut.

Critics Consensus: X-Men: The Last Stand provides plenty of mutant action for fans of the franchise, even if it does so at the expense of its predecessors' deeper character moments. Official YouTube Channel for 20th Century Fox Movies. Home of Avatar, Aliens, X-Men, Die Hard, Deadpool, Ice Age, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Rio, Peanuts, Maze Runner, Planet of the Apes, Wolverine.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine was released worldwide on May 1, 2009. The film received mixed reviews, being praised for its action sequences, the cast's acting (particularly by Jackman and Schreiber), emotional resonance, humor and the musical score, but came under fire for its poorly made CGI, convoluted plot, overabundance of characters, and its deviations from the source material, mostly its portrayal of the character. However, it was a financial success, opening at the top of the box office and grossing $179 million in the United States and Canada and over $373 million worldwide. Due to the mixed critical reaction and despite its success at the box office, the plans for X-Men Origins: Magneto were ultimately cancelled and its working draft script was handed over to and his prequel;. A second Wolverine film, was released in 2013 to positive reviews and greater commercial success.

A third film, was cited by critics as one of the best superhero films and marked 's final portrayal of the character. Contents. Plot In 1845, a boy living in, witnesses his father being killed by groundskeeper. The activates the boy's: bone claws protrude from his knuckles and he impales Thomas, who reveals that he is James' birth father before dying. James flees along with Thomas' other son, who is thus James' half-brother and has a healing factor mutation like James. They spend the next century as soldiers, fighting in the, both and the.

In Vietnam, the increasingly violent Victor attempts to rape a Vietnamese woman and kills a senior officer who tries to stop him. James happens upon the fight and defends Victor, resulting in the pair being sentenced to, which they survive due to their mutant healing abilities. Major approaches them in military custody and offers them membership in, a group of mutants including,. They join the team for a few years, with James now using the alias Logan, but Victor and the group's lack of for human life causes Logan to leave. Six years later, Logan is working as a logger in Canada, where he lives with his girlfriend. Stryker and Zero approach Logan at work. Stryker reports that Wade and Bradley have been killed and he thinks someone is targeting the team's members.

Logan refuses to rejoin Stryker but after finding Kayla's bloodied body in the woods, he realizes that Victor is responsible. He finds him at a local bar, but Logan loses the subsequent fight. Afterward, Stryker explains that Victor has gone rogue and offers Logan a way to become strong enough to get his revenge. Logan undergoes a painful operation to reinforce his skeleton with, a virtually indestructible metal.

Once the procedure is complete, Stryker attempts to betray Logan by ordering that his memory be erased so he can be used as Stryker's personal weapon, but Logan overhears this and escapes to a nearby farm, where an elderly couple take him in. Zero kills them the following morning and tries to kill Logan, but Logan takes down Zero's helicopter and swears to kill both Stryker and Victor. Logan locates John and Fred at a boxing club. Fred explains that Victor is still working for Stryker, hunting down mutants for Stryker to experiment on at his new laboratory, located at a place called 'The Island'. Fred mentions, the only one who escaped from the island and therefore knows its location. John and Logan find LeBeau in, then both fight Victor, who kills John and extracts his DNA.

Agreeing to help release mutants that Stryker has captured, Gambit takes Logan to Stryker's facility on. Logan learns that Kayla is alive, having been forced by Stryker into surveilling him in exchange for her sister's safety. However, Stryker refuses to release her sister and denies Victor the adamantium bonding promised for his service, claiming that test results revealed Victor would not survive the operation.

Stryker activates Wade, now known as Weapon XI, a 'mutant killer' with the powers of multiple mutants. While Logan and Victor join forces to fight off Weapon XI, Kayla is mortally wounded leading the captive mutants to and safety.

After Logan kills Weapon XI, Stryker arrives and shoots Logan in the head with silver bullets, rendering Logan unconscious. Before Stryker can shoot Kayla, she grabs him and uses her mutant power to persuade him to turn around and walk away until his feet bleed. Logan regains consciousness but has. He notices his dog tags read 'Logan' on one side and 'Wolverine' on the other. He pauses upon noticing Kayla's body, but does not recognize her and leaves the island. In a mid-credits scene, Stryker is detained for questioning by some in connection with the death of his superior, General Munson, whom Stryker had murdered to protect his experiment. In a post-credits scene, following the defeat of Deadpool, a hand of crawls out of the rocks and reaches to touch his head.

Deadpool’s head awakens and shushes the screen, revealing that he seems to have survived his decapitation. Released April 28, 2009 ( 2009-04-28) Length 45: 32, catalog #066967 chronology (2008) X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) (2009) soundtrack chronology (2006) X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) (2011) Composed by, the for X-Men Origins: Wolverine was mixed by Malcolm Luker, engineered by Costa Kotselas, and featured on the. In a 2008 interview with Christopher Coleman of Tracksounds.com, Gregson-Williams said that Hood attracted him to the project, adding: 'I happened to meet him at the dinner about three years ago. That night we were both nominees, but both losers. He had been nominated for and during the dinner I had spoken to him and he seemed like a really smart and creative guy.and into music. So I was really delighted when I got a call to meet him and discuss the possibilities for Wolverine.' In late March 2009, Jon Burlingame of was at the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th century-Fox to listen and report on the recording of the score.

Gregson-Williams conducted 'a 78-piece orchestra and a 40-voice choir (20 male, 20 female)' to achieve the sound. At the time of his visit, Burlingame noted that the choir was singing 'stanzas from an ancient Norse poem in Old Icelandic' to underscore what would be first track, 'Logan Through Time.' Director Gavin Hood commented on Gregson-Williams' style, saying: 'Harry's challenge is to give us operatic scale, but also keep it intimate and human. Harry's music has a kind of muscular confidence and strength that is very useful for the action, but he also has tremendous soul.' Hood also called the recording performance 'frigging brilliant!' Release Leaked workprint On March 31, 2009, a full-length DVD-quality of the film without a timecode or watermark, with some unfinished effects shots, a different typeface for titles and casting, and alternate sound effects was leaked online. The studio said it would be able to determine the source of the leak using forensic marks in the workprint.

The and began investigating the illegal posting. Fox estimated the workprint was downloaded roughly 4.5 million times by the time Wolverine was released in theaters. As of 2014, Fox estimates that a minimum of 15 million people downloaded it. The print contained a reference to, an Australian visual effects company working on the film. The company denied that they ever had a full copy of the film. Executive producer noted the leaked version lacked the ten minutes added during pick-ups in January 2009. However, the theatrical version of the film has no extra scenes that were not included in the leaked workprint.

Both versions run exactly 107 minutes, but director said 'another ending exists that features the film's villain.' The leak was traced down to a Bronx man named Gilberto Sanchez, who had bought an unlicensed DVD copy from a Korean man and later uploaded it under the name 'SkillyGilly'., a gossip reporter for —a channel also owned by Fox's parent company —was fired for writing a review of the film using the leaked copy he downloaded from the Internet. He described how easy it was to find and download the film even if the original source of the leak was no longer available on the web. The article he wrote for his column on the Fox News website was immediately removed. Marketing Among the companies which provided tie-in merchandising were,.

Hugh Jackman also posed as Wolverine for the campaign. In February 2009, released a, featuring and a glove with retractable claws. In April, Marvel debuted a new comic series, which writer said that while not directly influenced by the film, was written considering people who would get interested in Wolverine comics after watching the film. In December 2009, released the 12 inch highly detailed figure of Wolverine based on the movie with Hugh Jackman's likeness.

Video game. Main article: developed based on the film with the same name, which published. Wrote the script, while Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, and will.i.am voiced their characters from the film. The storyline goes beyond the one from the film, including other villains from the comics such as the and the, as well as the appearance of, who was in the other three X-Men films.

Theatrical run X-Men Origins: Wolverine was released on April 29, 2009, in the UK, Denmark, South Africa, and Australia; April 30, 2009 in the Philippines and in the Dominican Republic; and May 1, 2009 in the United States and Canada. A contest was held on the official website to determine the location of the world premiere on April 27.

In the end, the at the in won the premiere. The release in Mexico was delayed until the end of May due to an outbreak of in the country. On April 22, nine days before the release of the film, it was reported that X-Men Origins: Wolverine was outselling '3-to-1 at the same point in the sales cycle (nine days prior to the film's release).' Hugh Jackman at the Tempe Premiere. During its first day of wide release, Wolverine took in an estimated $35 million, with almost $5 million of that from midnight showings.

The earnings placed the film as the 16th highest-grossing opening day ever (22nd with ticket-price inflation). It went on to be number one film at the box office with a total of $85 million. Among summer kick-offs, it ranked fifth behind, X2, and Iron Man and it was in the top ten of comic book adaptations. The opening was lower than the last film in the franchise, X-Men: The Last Stand, as well as X2, but higher than X-Men, the first film in the series. The worldwide opening was over $158.1 million, but Fox stated that some markets underperformed, mostly due to the leaked workprint in countries with illegal downloading problems.

However, in an article for the 'piracy issue' of magazine, film critic John Hazelton was doubtful of this explanation, writing that the film's initial performance was 'uncertain' as the outbreak of swine flu in territories with the worst copyright infringement problems means that other territories did not compare at all. While it has received mixed reviews from critics, the film has been a financial success at the box office.

According to Wolverine has grossed approximately $179,883,157 in the United States and Canada. It took in another $193,179,707 in other territories, giving it a worldwide total of $373,062,864. Home media On September 15, 2009, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released X-Men Origins: Wolverine on DVD and Blu-ray disc. The two-disc Blu-ray includes commentary by Hood, another commentary by producers Lauren Shuler Donner and Ralph Winter, the featurette 'The Roots of Wolverine: A Conversation with X-Men creators Stan Lee and Len Wein', the featurette 'Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins', 10 character chronicles, two more featurettes, a trivia track, deleted scenes with commentary from Hood, two alternate sequences, a Fox Movie Channel premiere featurette and imdb BD Live technology.

Disc two of the set includes a digital copy. In addition, a exclusive 3-disc set, which includes a standard DVD copy of the film was also released.

The two-DVD special edition includes the two commentaries, the featurette with Stan Lee and Len Wein, an origins featurette, deleted and alternate scenes, and an anti-smoking PSA on disc one; disc two has a digital copy of the film. The single-disc DVD release has the origins featurette and anti-smoking PSA. Wolverine was the highest selling and most rented DVD release of the week, selling over three million copies, 850,000 of them on Blu-ray. Through its first six weeks the DVD has sold 3.79 million copies, generating $64.27 million in sales.

Reception On review aggregation website the film has an approval rating of 37% based on 258 reviews, with an average rating of 5.1/10. The site's critical consensus reads, 'Though Hugh Jackman gives his all, he can't help X-Men Origins: Wolverine overcome a cliche-ridden script and familiar narrative.' On the film has a score of 40 out of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'. Audiences polled by gave the film an average grade of 'B+' on an A+ to F scale.

Of commented on the film's standing among other Marvel films, saying that it is 'an O.K., not great, Marvel movie that tells the early story of the prime X-Man, and attempts to make it climax in a perfect coupling with the start of the known trilogy.' He also said that 'superhero mythologies can be so complicated, only a lonely comic-book-reading kid could make sense of it all.' James Mullinger of also commented on the structure of the story in saying that the 'film clumsily tries to explain the origins of James Howlett, AKA Wolverine, which had wisely only ever been briefly referred to in the original X-Men saga. In doing so, it creates a fairly bland plot which is full of holes.' Lou Lumenick of the was generally more favorable towards Origins, stating 'Fortunately, Jackman is well-matched with Schreiber, who can sneer with the best of them and wears fangs well. The two have three spectacular battles together before squaring off against a formidable enemy atop a nuclear reactor.' Peter Rainer of also praised Jackman's performance, saying that 'Hugh Jackman demonstrates that you can segue effortlessly from a tuxedoed song-and-dance man at the Oscars to a feral gent with adamantium claws and berserker rage.'

Claudia Puig of considered the movie 'well-acted, with spectacular action and witty one-liners'. Gave the film two stars out of four and asked about the title character, 'Why should I care about this guy? He feels no pain and nothing can kill him, so therefore he's essentially a story device for action sequences.'

Gave Wolverine two and a half stars out of four, calling the action scenes competently executed but not memorable, and considering that when dealing with Wolverine's past 'there's little creativity evident in the way those blanks are filled in', and that the revelations made Wolverine 'less compelling'. Comparatively, Bill Gibron of 's Filmcritic.com website gave the film a positive '4.0 out of 5 stars,' saying that although Hugh Jackman is 'capable of carrying even the most mediocre effort, he singlehandedly makes X-Men Origins: Wolverine an excellent start to the summer 2009 season.' He predicted 'there will be purists who balk at how Hood and his screenwriters mangle and manipulate the mythology;' and further said that 'any ending which leaves several characters unexplained and unaccounted for can't really seal the full entertainment deal.'

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Regarding Wolverine within the context of the X-Men film series, Tom Charity of commented: 'Serviceable but inescapably redundant, this Wolverine movie does just enough to keep the X-Men franchise on life support, but the filmmakers will have to come up with some evolutionary changes soon if it's going to escape X-tinction.' Similarly, of expressed that ' X-Men Origins: Wolverine will most likely manage to cash in on the popularity of the earlier episodes, but it is the latest evidence that the superhero movie is suffering from serious imaginative fatigue.' On a more negative note, Philip French of said that the film's 'dull, bone-crushing, special-effects stuff' is 'of interest only to hardcore fans who've probably read it all in Marvel comics.' Sukhdev Sandhu of stated that ' Wolverine is an artificial stimulus package of the most unsatisfying kind. Aggressively advertised and hyped to the hills, it will no doubt attract full houses at first; after that though, when word-of-mouth buzz-kill goes into overdrive, there's bound to be widespread deflation and a palpable feeling of being conned.'

Similarly, Orlando Parfitt of (UK) praised the performances of the actors and the action scenes, but stated that the film felt underdeveloped: 'There's an enjoyable time to be had with Wolverine, but it's also somewhat unsatisfying.' Furthermore, Scott Mendelson of gave the film a grade of 'D', noting that 'Wolverine was the lead character of the X-Men films, and we've already learned everything we need to know from the films in said franchise,' adding that 'the extra information given here actually serves to make the character of Logan/Wolverine less interesting.' Also felt that the film injured the character by proving that 'how the hero acquired his special powers turns out to be a whole lot less interesting than what he does with them', while also being 'a mash-up of meaningless combat sequences (meaningless because Logan/Wolverine is just about unstoppable), sub-par visual effects, template backstory, and some goofy Liev Schreiber-as-a-villain thespianizing'. Hugh Jackman later confessed being unhappy with the final result of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

The actor wanted primarily a film that would deepen the Wolverine character, but 'somehow the first Wolverine movie ended up looking like the fourth X-Men — just with different characters.' He tried to avert the same results while doing the next solo film for the character, 2013's.

Two cases exist of adolescents injecting themselves with elemental mercury after having seen X-Men Origins: Wolverine and incorrectly believing this would convert their bones to metal similar to Wolverine. Sequels Wolverine was set to be the first of a series of X-Men Origins prequels, with the other being focused on. However, X-Men Origins: Magneto entered and was eventually canceled., released in 2011, was another prequel to the series. Set in 1962, the film features a young Professor X and Magneto and the foundation of the X-Men. In 2013, a second Wolverine film was released titled, set years after the events of, but mostly serving as a. The follow-up to First Class, 2014's, was confirmed to erase the events of X-Men Origins: Wolverine through.

A third Wolverine film titled was released on March 3, 2017. It is 's last time portraying the character. The 2016 spin-off film and its 2018 sequel feature reprising his role as the.

Several jokes are aimed at the expense of the version of Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine due to the negative reaction of the character's portrayal. A Deadpool 2 mid-credits scene depicts that film's version of Wilson traveling backwards in time to the events of X-Men Origins: Wolverine to kill the widely criticized Weapon XI interpretation of Deadpool. References.

The explosive X-Men motion picture trilogy officially draws to a close with this release that finds Rush Hour director Brett Ratner stepping in for Bryan Singer to tell the tale of a newly discovered mutant 'cure,' and the polarizing effect it has on mutant/man relations. With the pressure on mutants to give up their powers and pledge alliance with the human race reaching a critical turning point, Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) urges tolerance and understanding as his nemesis Magneto (Ian McKellen) gathers a powerful resistance in preparation for the ultimate war against humankind. Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, and James Marsden return to reprise the roles they played in the previous two X-Men films, with Kelsey Grammer and Vinnie Jones joining the cast as Beast and Juggernaut respectively.

Jason Buchanan, Rovi. To be honest there are none of the X-men movies I like, except for Last Stand, especially since this is the one X-men film that everyone seems to hate which I don't understand. I mean yes it does have a more action oriented director under the name of Brett Ratner (Tower heist, Red Dragon, Horrible Bosses,) But he did a good job at making this an extremely entertaining superhero film unlike the first two and the other films following. While the film does majorly prefer an action focus much more than a story focus and I know many X-men fans were pissed about that, I really didn't mind that, and I feel for the grand finale on the main trilogy of films (even if it hints twice at a sequel that never happened.) I like the inclusion of some of the other superheroes like Colossus, Archangel, and Jubilee (Even if they aren't really used to their full potential) and the inclusion of Juggernaut was just hilarious. And the film also did have some balls I think to kill off such a big characters such as Xavier.supposedly. And while I don't remember much of the plot outside of the protection of a boy and a gene that can turn mutants into normal humans and the good guys are using it to fight the bad guys and Jean Grey comes back from the dead somehow, I don't really get a lot of it that much but all I really cared about in the end was how the film was all going to end and I think it came out with a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy, especially with the fantastic mutant battle.

Again, while it is definitely stupid, I'd say give it a try and give it a chance unlike every X-men fanboy that bashes it. In my review of Return of the Jedi, I spoke about the baggage that comes with threequels and their tendency to be the runts of their respective litters. Often the drop in quality - whether perceived or actual - stems from a lack of new ideas, or an abandonment of the principles and/ or personnel which made the series so successful.

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That being said, the same person being in charge is not in itself a guarantee of quality, as Spider-Man 3 and Evil Dead 3 firmly demonstrate. X-Men: The Last Stand has accrued a similar reputation in comic book circles in the 11 years since its release.

Whenever this offering is mentioned, fans of the first two films tend to either start foaming at the mouth, disgusted by some deep betrayal, or sigh dejectedly and make some resigned comment about Hollywood. One could be forgiven, as a casual fan of X-Men, for assuming that this is the 2000s' equivalent of Batman and Robin. Rest assured, it's isn't - but it is very much the Batman Forever of the series, representing a huge climbdown from the heft and skill of old.

A lot has been made about Bryan Singer's sudden departure from the series, with debate raging over how much of the resulting disappointment is his fault. Singer left the project in July 2004 to helm Superman Returns, at a time when only a partial treatment of the story existed. Singer had intended to focus the third film around Jean Grey's arc leading on from X2, culminating in Jean committing suicide but her spirit surviving as something akin to the Star Child from 2001: A Space Odyssey. When Singer jumped ship, he took with him X2 screenwriters Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty, leaving 20th Century Fox with little to work with. Over the ensurng six months, the project was offered to numerous directors who turned it down, including Joss Whedon (who was busy on his Wonder Woman project) and Alex Proyas, who refused on account of the bad experience he had endured on I, Robot. Matthew Vaughn, who had then just finished Layer Cake, signed on to direct in February 2005, but even with the release date being pushed back Vaughn felt he did not have the time he needed to make the film he wanted.

Having had some say in the casting - including Kelsey Grammer and Vinnie Jones - he backed out before filming was set to begin in July, paving the way for Brett Ratner to come in. Whether or not you think that Singer was right to jump ship (Superman Returns being the indecisive stodge that it is), much of his influence remains in at least the first hour of this film, just as Tim Burton held some sway over Batman Forever. His fingerprints are all over the Jean Grey storyline, fleshing out the character and turning her into something truly dangerous. Her arc is very reminsicent of Amy Irving's character in The Fury (itself heavily X-Men-inflected), being as she is a young woman struggling to channel and contain enormously destructive powers that to a large extent she doesn't want.

There's even a sequence where Jean disintegrates people with her power - although it's not as bloody as The Fury's 18-rated version. If all the good parts of X-Men: The Last Stand lie in whatever Singer managed to contribute before departing, all of the blame for the bad aspects can be laid firmly at Ratner's feet.

The main problem lies in his sensibility - or, to be more precise, the complete lack of it. While Singer worked hard to build a compelling visual world to explore complex themes about racism, identity and alienation, all Ratner really wants to do to make knob gags and blow stuff up. Despite having been in the running to helm the first X-Men film, he displays no deep knowledge or love for the mythology, being too obsessed with spectacle and cheap humour to put in the hard yards which this kind of story needs. As a result of both Singer's influence and Ratner's laziness, the film ends up being deeply conflicted.

The first hour has some of the substance of old, especially in the opening flashback and some of scenes involving discussions of the cure. But Ratner doesn't delve as deep as Singer did, introducing the concept and then leaving it as a mere McGuffin.

The dialogue is more aggressively macho than before, and talky scenes are more readily broken up with needless editing. And then there is the needlessly yandere-ish love scene between Jean and Logan, which feels like someone copy-pasted the sauna scene from Goldeneye into their fan fiction. Building up their relationship is necessary for the pay-off, but this isn't an erotic thriller - you don't have to approach every conversation like it's a prelude to 12A rumpy-pumpy. As things roll on towards the inevitably explosive conclusion, many of the interesting character arcs which are either introduced or carried over from X2 are left unfinished. Grammar is a half-decent fit for Beast but is wasted in the role, and Rogue gets an especially tough break; while in X-Men she was arguably the central character, here all she does is go off, get the cure and then come back. While in the previous two films the action felt like an interlude to or progression from the character development, here everything serves the need for everything to blow up at the end. If X2 was said to have been modeled after Road to Perdition, then X-Men: The Last Stand's main point of comparison would be with Die Another Day.

Aside from possessing a general contempt for the audience's intelligence, and a number of similar scenes (the training simulations, the X-Jet's 'stealth mode' standing in for the invisible car), they also feature really dodgy CGI in the places that it's least needed. It's not so bad when Logan is having his flesh ripped apart when Jean is in Dark Phoenix mode, but the sequence with the bridge is every bit as ropey as Pierce Brosnan windsurfing over the CGI wave. Building up to the big battle at the end would be fine if it actually had scale, context and above all meaning.

But while Peter Jackson pulled it off spectacularly in both The Two Towers and The Return of the King, Ratner's battle is as aimless as a video game raid. Where Jackson's battles went through given motions, ebbing and flowing to build character and generate tension, the final act of this film is uninvolving, bland and often ridiculous. Vinnie Jones make the whole thing feel like a cut scene from Gone in 60 Seconds, and the actual ending involving Magneto at the chess board is both unashamed sequel bait and a huge anticlimax. In spite of all its poor qualities, the cast of X-Men: The Last Stand do just enough to make the experience tolerable. Famke Janssen is the stand-out, having a commanding screen presence which manages to pierce through the effects and hold our attention; in the scene in the woods, she even upstages Sir Ian McKellen. McKellen and Patrick Stewart are both fine, though both have settled into 'established actor cameo' mode by the end, and Hugh Jackman continues to make his case for being the definitive Wolverine. Had Days of Future Past never happened, this would have been a bittersweet farewell for the cast, but you can't blame any of them for not trying in spite of the poor script.

X-Men: The Last Stand is a disappointment denouement to the original X-Men trilogy. While it makes for watchable viewing during the Jean Grey sequences, there's ultimately too little meat on the bones and too few thoughts between its ears to either satisfy committed fans or compete with its two predecessors. It id the worst of the original X-Men films, but had Brett Ratner been involved from the very beginning, it could have been even worse. The first X-Men gave us promise. X2 made us proud to be comic book fans.

X3 makes us want to cower down and cry. It's crap from the opening shot right to its cliffhanger ending, which is quite ironic since the film is titled 'The Last Stand.' There's no excuse for such sloppy, mismanaged execution especially when the budget is a whopping $210 million.

It's really tough for me to explain how bad this film is because I could pretty much pick apart every scene and explain what is wrong with it. Too many characters, poorly written dialogue, clumsily staged and edited fight scenes, and awful CGI are just some of the many problems with X-Men: The Last Stand.

I swear I have seen better use of green screen in student films. It's a slap in the face to fans of the source material and a complete nose dive off the cliff in comparison to the previous films in the series. Not since The Godfather Part III has the concluding act in a well-received trilogy been so monumentally awful.