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That's really the main thing wrong with Last Stand: It feels like two vastly different movies clumsily stapled together at the last minute. One is essentially an action flick about the alternative, murderous personality of Jean Grey, called "the Phoenix," which takes over her mind and goes all psychic psychopath on the human population. Conversely, the second "movie" deals with a cure that suppresses the X-gene in mutants, offering them a chance for a normal life, and us a chance for a complex, deeply emotional X-Men film, judging by how well Brett Ratner handled scenes of Angel as a child.
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An opening scene establishes that the inventor of the Mutant Cure was inspired by the discovery that his son Warren (the future X-Man Angel) had a mutation that caused him to grow wings. Now, this could have been a very simple and forgettable sequence, but X3 actually handles it very dramatically by having the man walk in on his son trying to hack the mutation off of his back.
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