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Joining the ranks of blind-folded sheep queueing up obediently at the cinema in the afternoon last Saturday was me. Together with 3 other friends, we hung ourselves at the mercy of the director of the latest X-Men movie: The Last Stand.

To be frank, I was initially skeptical of the movie’s materials, since a critic review from a local newpaper gave it a thumbs down for plot suckers, dismissing it as a typical Hollywood CGI animated fare, with enough fighting scenes to bring an action lover down to his knees. After all, what was the worst that could happen? Walk out of the cinema?

It wasn’t that bad to warrant dissing the screening ala French style, as the plot was promising enough to tantalise the viewer to keep on watching, in a valiant hope that the characters would get the development they all so richly deserved.

However, the dialogue was cheesy and shallow. Other than a few statements that reeked of cheekiness and barely disguised sarcasm, there was barely sufficient heft in the exchanges between characters, which really disappointed me. I wasn’t expecting world class expositions, but neither did I want to sit through a movie that didn’t allow the actresses to fully develop their characters.

Jean Grey came across to me as a psychotic lady with suicidal tendencies: there wasn’t enough development to emphasise that she has a side that we have all come to know so well, and like. I know, because the movie had tried to convey this; however, the lack of the x-factor has reduced the portrayal to merely a skin-deep suggestion, probably a simple allure to loyal fans of the comics that Jean has an internal struggle within herself.

Like the criticism in Lifestyle, other characters in the story are abruptly butchered from the storyline, which impresses upon me that the movies was simply going through the motions. The climax peaked as a hill, compared to most movies where the climax was an exhililerating vertical wall amongst the clouds of the world.

All in all, the story-line was promising and rich, but the execution of the movie left much to be desired.

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