X-Men: The Last Stand | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

The film is successful in creating a complex moral universe, mostly due to the set-up from the previous films, but Ratner doesn't seem to know what to do with it.

While X-Men: The Last Stand closes out a trilogy of stories, it leaves a sour taste...

Overall, it really was disappointing, but at least it delivered some action, tidbits for the fans and a few suprises. The problem was that by the time they were done, the suprises didn't seem to mean as much as they should.

Ratner keeps the focus on the big questions.

Under the assured, if sometimes chilly, direction of Brett Ratner, from a script by Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn (who also worked on the substandard Fantastic Four), the story here is built on different notions of loss.