x-men: The last stand
Director: Brett Ratner
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Jansen, Halle Berry
5/10
It’s mindblowing action from the mutants all the way in this third film adaptation of Marvel Comics’ X-Men Superhero. God forbid if our planet were to really have even one of these mutants. They would destroy the Golden Gate Bridge, the Alcatraz island, and do more harm than aliens, dragons or any of the other evils Hollywood has canned so far.
But mind you, there are evil mutants and good ones. And our last of the trilogy of X-Men is about, as the cliche goes, the triumph of good over evil. Humans find a cure for mutants. And that starts the trouble. Mutants aren’t ill that they need a cure, they argue. They are just those ‘gifted’ ones who go to special school like the one started by Charles Xavier played by Patrick Stewart.
So you have mutants protesting against the government like Americans protesting the Iraq war or Indians protesting reservations. But again, civil orderly protests don’t change government policy, so evil mutants raise an army.
The rest, as they say, is history and you go catch the movie if you’re curious to know. Brett Ratner has some scintillating action in store for you from Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry.
Anasuya Basu
