X-Men: The Last Stand
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| German title | X-Men: The Last Stand | ||
| Original title | X-Men: The Last Stand | ||
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| Country of production | USA , UK | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2006 | ||
| length | 104 minutes | ||
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FSK 12 JMK 12 |
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| Director | Brett Ratner | ||
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Zak Penn , Simon Kinberg |
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Avi Arad , Lauren Shuler Donner , Ralph Winter |
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| music | John Powell | ||
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Philippe Rousselot Dante Spinotti |
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Mark Goldblatt , Mark Helfrich , Julia Wong |
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X-Men: The Last Stand (original title: X-Men: The Last Stand , also known as X-Men 3 ) is an American comic film adaptation from 2006 and is based like the two predecessors X-Men (2000) and X-Men 2 (2003) in the X-Men film franchise based on the X-Men comic book series from Marvel Comics . The extensive line- up was largely taken over. The Director introduced this time Brett Ratner , as Bryan Singer , the director of the first two films, with the shooting of the film Superman Returns was employed (2006).
action
At the beginning there is a look back, about 20 years before: Erik Lensherr (Magneto) and Charles Xavier, still good friends at the time, visit the young Jean Gray. Jean is still a child, but already shows extremely strong powers in the field of telepathy and telekinesis and has a seemingly unlimited potential. While Erik is impressed, Charles worries that her powers are not only extremely strong, but are also usually released by instinct. He decides to provide parts of her mind with telepathic blocks in order to enclose a large part of her powers in her subconscious. A side thread deals with the fear of the young Warren Worthington III, son of a wealthy industrialist, of his own mutation and the attempt to remove the wings that have grown to him by all means - until he is discovered by his father in the process.
In the present: The X-Men team up with Dr. Henry “Hank” McCoy, who was once a founding member of the X-Men under the code name “The Beast” and is now the first mutant to hold government office. McCoy visits a pharmaceutical company, accompanied by a doctor from Warren Worthington II's team, who has found a cure for the mutations. The source of this "cure" is the mutant Jimmy (code name: Leech), who is able to suppress the X gene, which is responsible for the mutants' powers, in other mutants. However, it is emphasized that the drug is only intended for use by mutants who really want to get rid of their powers - an offer that Rogue also wants to accept, as their powers prevent a more intimate connection with their friend Iceman. Warren Worthington III (Angel), for whom his father primarily developed the remedy, refuses to undergo the treatment at the last moment and flies away with his now fully grown wings.
The X-Men live on after the events at Alkali Lake. Only Scott / Cyclops withdraws because he cannot cope with Jean's death. While the X-Men and their new team members are tackling a holographic exercise sequence in the danger room, Cyclops suddenly receives a telepathic call from his partner who was believed dead. Immediately he goes to Alkali Lake, where Jean actually rises again from the masses of water that they once buried. When they kiss, however, a dark change takes place in Jean, which sets off all alarm bells in Professor Xavier's mind. He sends Storm and Wolverine to Alkali Lake, but they only find Jean and Cyclops' unconscious glasses floating in the air. At first it is unclear what happened to Cyclops, so the two X-Men bring Jean back to the institute.
After the mutant cure was announced in the media, Magneto founds an army of mutants, including Pyro, a former student at the Xavier Institute, and fueled their paranoia that the government would use the drug to coerce all mutants to make "normal" people. When the cure in Magneto's attempt to free his allies Mystique and other mutants - Juggernaut and Multiple Man - from government violence is actually used as a weapon against the mutants and Mystique loses her powers as a result, Magneto and his mutants take on, destroy the source of the cure: the Worthington pharmaceutical company.
In the meantime, Wolverine learns from Prof. Xavier that Jean's personality is split. Xavier reveals to him that she is the mutant with the strongest powers he has ever met. Jean was already so powerful in her childhood that Xavier was forced to use his telepathic powers to contain her, but during this treatment Jean's personality split into two people. One, Jean himself, was rational and controlled; the other, who referred to herself as "Phoenix", acted only instinctively and in Xavier's eyes was a great danger to the general public. At that time he used his powers to lock away the destructive part of Jean's consciousness and thus also tame Phoenix. After Xavier and Wolverine split up after a heated discussion about ethics , Phoenix wakes up in Jean and makes Wolverine sexual advances. When Wolverine rejects this because she is not herself, Phoenix throws him against the wall and escapes.
With the help of Callisto, a mutant who can track down others, Magneto tracks down Phoenix in her parents' house, where he and his confidante meet Xavier, Storm and Wolverine. Magneto and Xavier enter the house and everyone tries to get Jean or Phoenix on his side. Storm and Wolverine also try to get inside, but fight Juggernaut and Callisto in the process. Meanwhile, the argument in the house ends with a telepathic duel between Phoenix and Xavier, in the course of which Jean's telekinetic forces tear the house from its foundations and finally dissolve Xavier into thin air. Magneto now takes on Phoenix 'and makes her follow him. A little later, a funeral ceremony in honor of Professor Xavier takes place in the X-Institute. A short time later, however, Wolverine also follows a mental call from Jean and finds himself in Magneto's camp in the forest. When he meets Magneto after a fruitless attempt to bring Jean to his senses, the latter incapacitates him.
Finally, Magneto and his "Brotherhood of Mutants" move with Phoenix to Alcatraz Island , San Francisco . The former prison island has now been converted into a laboratory in which leech is housed and "the remedy" is produced by his body. Magneto wants to kill Leech because the production of the serum cannot take place without the boy. There is a clash between Magneto's mutant army and the soldiers of the government armed with the “cure”. Shortly after the battle began, the X-Men reached Alcatraz and stood by the government soldiers.
While the battle rages, Magneto dispatches Juggernaut to break into the research wing and kill Leech. However, Juggernaut is stopped by Kitty Pryde, who tricked him and was able to free Leech. Through the combined forces and a deception, the X-Men finally manage to stop Magneto. Wolverine manages to distract Magneto so that Hank McCoy can inject him with a large amount of the healing agent, with the result that Magneto loses all of his magnetic powers. But when a last attempt to bring Jean Gray back to his senses fails due to the careless intervention of the soldiers, Phoenix's powers get more and more out of control. While Jean literally pulverizes everything and everyone who doesn't get to safety fast enough, the X-Men and Angel help evacuate the facility. Only Wolverine is able, thanks to his regenerative powers, to laboriously advance to Phoenix. When their second personality ( alter ego ) Jean finally prevails for a brief moment, she asks Wolverine to kill her. Wolverine confesses to Jean that he loves her before piercing her with his adamantium claws, killing her.
At the end of the film, the “healed” Magneto alias Erik Lensherr is finally just an old, bitter man. In the last scene he is shown briefly in the park, where he can move a metallic chess piece a little while playing chess without touching it; this suggests that the “cure” for the mutations was either not strong enough to “cure” a powerful mutant like him or that it was only effective for a limited time. Storm and Wolverine, meanwhile, continue the mutant school in memory of Xavier's legacy.
The end credits are followed by an epilogue : You can see the brain-dead man who was shown in a teaching video in the classroom by Prof. Xavier at the beginning of the film, lying in a hospital room. An old friend of Charles, Dr. Moira MacTaggart, comes in to check on the patient when he suddenly moves his head and speaks to Moira in Charles' voice. The film ends with her astonished exclamation “Charles ?!”.
reception
| Box office earnings [million] | |||
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| territory | U.S$ | € | CHF |
| world | 459.4 | 385.6 | 414.8 |
| Production costs | 210 | 176.2 | 189.6 |
 United States Canada
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234.4 | 196.7 | 211.6 |
 Germany
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12.7 | 10.7 | 11.5 |
 Austria
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1.7 | 1.4 | 1.5 |
 Switzerland
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1.8 | 1.5 | 1.6 |
| (Access date: February 1, 2015) | |||
Reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews: "If you liked the first two X-Men films, you will also like the third". Berardinelli criticized the fact that too many characters share film time. Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on May 26, 2006 that he enjoyed the action and absurdity of the film. The German cinema magazine Cinema wrote: “Resistance is futile! Part three of the dark 'X-Men' saga convinces with an explosive story and what is probably the most spectacular showdown of the year. "
Awards
The film received seven Teen Choice Award nominations in 2006 , including Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman. Halle Berry was also nominated for the Black Movie Award that same year . In 2007 Famke Janssen received the Saturn Award for best supporting actress for portraying Dr. Jean Gray / Phoenix.
production
Bryan Singer, director of the previous two films, could not be hired again because he took over the directorial work on the film Superman Returns . For the same reason, James Marsden (Cyclops) only has a brief appearance in the third part. Matthew Vaughn (producer of the film Snatch - Pigs and Diamonds ) was recruited as Singer's successor , who also worked on the project for some time, but finally left it again before shooting began. So was Brett Ratner with about 210 million US dollars commissioned expensive production.
Filming finally began in August 2005 and lasted through December of that year. They included the construction of a huge model of the Golden Gate Bridge , and Angel actor Ben Foster had problems with the artificial wings that he had to wear in almost all scenes; they turned out to be too heavy and had to be reworked into a completely new, lighter model.
The first trailer for the film was released in the USA in December 2005, the second on April 4, 2006. The film opened worldwide on May 25, 2006. By July 2006, it had already grossed 425 million US dollars.
synchronization
The German synchronization was for a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Tobias Meister on behalf of Interopa Film GmbH in Berlin .
Trivia
Numerous actors, including Mike Vogel , Jed Bernard and Nick Stahl ( Sin City ), have applied for the role of Angel. The role eventually went to Ben Foster, who had made a name for himself in several films and the television series Six Feet Under .
After the shooting of X-Men 2 , Halle Berry had announced that he would not work on another X-Men film. The reason she cited personal problems with director Bryan Singer . She also complained that the character Storm was not developing and wanted to focus on the main role in Catwoman . But when that film flopped catastrophically and Singer turned away from X-Men 3 , Berry rejoined the project, provided that Storm played a bigger role.
Comic book writer Stan Lee made a cameo in the first few minutes of the film : he was sprinkling the lawn with the water hose in the neighborhood of young Jean Gray.
On May 16, 2006, Activision released a video game for the film, which covers the events between the second and third part.
controversy
In November 2017 the lesbian actress cast Ellen Page (played the role of Shadowcat) director Brett Ratner before they discriminated against during the filming with homophobic statements and against their will outed to have. Her bisexual colleague Anna Paquin (Rogue) confirmed her allegations.
Web links
- X-Men: The Last Stand at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- X-Men: The Last Stand in the online movie database
- X-Men: The Last Stand atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- X-Men: The Last Stand at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for X-Men: The last stand . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2006 (PDF; test number: 106 237 V / DVD).
- ↑ Age identification for X-Men: The last stand . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Overall grossing results from X-Men: The Last Stand at BoxOfficeMojo.com (English), accessed on February 1, 2015.
- ↑ International box office earnings from X-Men: The Last Stand at BoxOfficeMojo.com (English), accessed on February 1, 2015.
- ^ Review by James Berardinelli
- ^ Review by Roger Ebert
- ↑ Critique of the German cinema magazine Cinema
- ↑ X-Men: The Last Stand. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on June 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Ellen Page accuses director of homophobia. In: FAZ.net. November 11, 2017. Retrieved July 23, 2018 .