X3: The Last Stand (2006)

Directed by Brett Ratner. With Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen. When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men, led by Professor Charles Xavier, and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organized under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.

X-Men: The Last Stand[5] is a 2006[1][6] superhero film, based on the X-Men superhero team introduced in Marvel Comics. The film, distributed by 20th Century Fox, is the sequel to 2003's X2 and the third installment in the X-Men film series.

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

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After dropping important clues to Jean Grey's ultimate fate in X-Men (2000) and X2: X-Men United (2003) -- with latter showing her tapping into the Phoenix Force, seemingly sacrificing her life at Akali Lake to save her team -- fans were expecting X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) to finally tackle [...]

The government has a Department of Mutant Affairs in "X-Men: The Last Stand," and it is headed by the mutant Dr. Hank McCoy (Kelsey Grammer), also known as Beast. The Mutant Community seems on its way into the mainstream, the goal long envisioned by Prof. Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), the head of the school where young X-Men learn to develop and control their powers. The school purrs along proudly with Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) as a role model, but then a kid named Leech surfaces, and all bets are off.

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The film began with a flashback from 20 years earlier - two men stepped from a New York State-licensed car that pulled up outside the residence of Jean Grey's (Haley Ramm as child, Famke Janssen as adult) parents in a quiet suburban neighborhood: they were former allies Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Eric Lensherr/Magneto (Ian McKellen). Eric spoke: "I still don't know why I'm here.

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Bloated and often nonsensical, the main thrust of the action is the unveiling of a mutant “cure,” created using the blood of a mutant who can negate the mutations of others.

When a private laboratory supported by the government finds the cure for the mutants, using the DNA of a powerful boy, the mutants have the option of giving up their powers and become human, but their society split.

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