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As the 3rd and (perhaps final) installment of the X-Men franchise, The Last Stand carries the series tradition of exploring philosophical themes through some rather intense action.
Compared to the 2 previous films, the 3rd film certainly didn’t feel as ambitious. The over-the-top special effects are no longer that awe-inspiring, and there isn’t a strong sense of character development, probably because there are so many characters, and each character has so little time for him/her self.
The film focuses on another crisis that the mutants face: a cure has been development that could remove their special talents and turn them into ordinary people. While this may seem to the humans as the catch-all solution to all their problems, the mutants certainly think they have their own choice in whether they want to be mutants or humans.
The plot feels to be a bit too messy. There’s a lot of plot devices of convenience to just push the story forward, and while it is acceptable, it certainly makes the film feel very hasty. No character is really portrayed in detail. A few just dies, making you wish for more scenes from them. The film is built on the assumption that you’ve seen the previous works, and know each character’s own story by heart. Again, nothing wrong with this, but having not seen the prior works in quite some time, it does make the characters far more distant.