What Happens In X-Men 3 (Not A Review and has Major Spoilers)

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Twenty years before the events of X-Men, Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr, two mutant-rights activists, encounter an extremely powerful telepathic pre-teen — Jean Grey. At the behest of her parents, the two men bring her into their care to teach her how to control her powers.

Ten years later, another young mutant — Warren Worthington III — deals with his own mutation. Having sprouted feathery wings, he attempts to cut them off in his bathroom with a razor blade. When his father stumbles in on him, the older man vows to find a cure for his son's "sickness."

Shortly after the events of X2, Logan (Wolverine) and Ororo Munroe (Storm) lead several young mutants in a survival exercise in the Danger Room, a special combat simulator at the X-Mansion. Meanwhile, a heartbroken Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops is haunted by memories of his deceased partner. He is not alone in his turmoil — Professor Xavier also senses her presence. Cyclops decides to return to Alkali Lake, where Jean Grey apparently sacrificed herself to rescue her fellow X-Men. Shortly thereafter, Professor X is teaching an ethics course, using either video or a live feed of his colleague Dr. Moira MacTaggert, Xavier emphasises on the possibility of shifting one's mind into a brain-dead person in order to sustain one's life. The ethics class is then interrupted by a telepathic disturbance in which Xavier pauses and dismisses his class immediately. Moments later shocking news comes over the television: Warren Worthington II, head of the Worthington Pharmaceutical Company, has announced that scientist Dr. Kavita Rao has developed an antigen that suppresses mutation. Suddenly, the X-Men face the philosophical dilemma of whether or not their mutant powers are gifts or hindrances. Especially affected is young Rogue, who cannot touch another person without draining their energy. Dr. Hank McCoy, a former student of Xavier and US Cabinet member, returns to the mansion to offer his counsel.

In a San Francisco office building, resisting his father's wishes to cure mutation, Warren Worthington III (Angel in the comics, though that name is unused in the film), escapes from a high-rise office building using his now full-grown wings.

All over the country, mutants rally together to discuss the ramifications of the "cure." At a rally in a crumbling church, Magneto and Pyro warn their fellow mutants that the cure will be used to exterminate mutants on a genocidal level. Recruiting Callisto, Arclight, and Kid Omega (whose powers appear to be those of Quill in the comics) Magneto attempts to locate Mystique, who had been captured trying to steal information about the "cure". The group ambushes a prison convoy, freeing her along with the Juggernaut and the Multiple Man, and prepare to assemble an army to ambush the medical facility holding the source of the antigen--a pre-teen mutant named Jimmy, codenamed Leech in his government file, whose own power is to remove the mutant abilities of others while in their proximity — and whose blood is the ultimate source of the "cure". In their escape from the convoy, however, a guard injects Mystique with a shot from a "cure" gun. As her blue color and morphing abilities wither, Magneto — who sees the gun as proof of his beliefs regarding forced treatment — abandons her as a casualty of war.

At Alkali Lake, Scott re-encounters Jean, evidently alive, but then he suffers a terrible fate. Sensing trouble, Professor X deploys Wolverine and Storm to investigate. When the arrive at the lake, they encounter an unconscious Jean. Returning to the mansion, a grave Professor X explains that when Jean survived the dam collapse depicted in X2, she unleashed a powerful split-personality which he calls Phoenix, previously kept in check by his telepathic blocks. Across the country, Callisto senses that Jean is now a "Class 5" mutant, and more powerful than even Magneto. Waking from her sleep, Jean again loses control, and escapes to her parents' house.

There, Magneto and Professor X vie for her loyalty. The enraged and resentful Jean disintegrates Professor X for his manipulation of her mind, and escapes with Magneto just as Wolverine and Storm attempt to intervene. Devastated by their loss, the remaining X-Men hold a funeral for their teacher, and then prepare to band together under Storm's leadership. Students Colossus, Kitty Pryde, and Bobby Drake (Iceman) unite with Storm, Wolverine, and McCoy, who now resurrects his old X-Men codename: Beast. Notably absent is Rogue, who has snuck off to seek "the cure."

Using information from the de-powered Mystique, the army attempts to capture Magneto's army only to realize they have been deceived by Multiple Man. Magneto and his Brotherhood of Mutants have already moved on to San Francisco. To reach the Worthington Laboratories facility on Alcatraz Island, Magneto manipulates the Golden Gate Bridge to it. As his mutants rush onto the island, the army counterattacks by firing syringes of the antigen. As mutant after mutant is de-powered, Arclight unleashes her shock wave powers, smashing through the army barrier. She, Kid Omega and Psylocke break into the facility. Inside, they find Dr. Rao and Warren Worthington II. Kid Omega kills Rao, while Psylocke and Arclight drag Worthington to the roof where he is rescued by Angel.
In the midst of the chaos, the X-Men arrive to defend the island against the Brotherhood. As old friends Pyro and Iceman engage in battle, Kitty Pryde follows Juggernaut into the lab, looking for Jimmy. When they each locate the boy, Kitty tricks Juggernaut into charging toward them, knocking himself unconscious running full-force into a wall, depowered around Jimmy. Outside, the battle rages, with Storm killing Callisto. Magneto encourages Jean to channel her full power against the labs. As Jean disintegrates mutants and humans by the dozen, Wolverine manages to distract Magneto long enough for Beast to stab him with a syringe full of the antigen. As Magneto's powers fade, he escapes from the island a broken man, muttering in horror, "What have I done"

With Jean raging out of control, Storm and the rest of the X-Men get to safety. Wolverine, with his healing power that resists disintegration, is the only one who can reach Jean, and he makes his way to her step by painful step as she unrelentingly tries to kill him. When he reaches her, the old Jean returns for a moment, horrified herself, and asks that he kill her. Telling her, "I love you," he regretfully stabs her with his adamantium claws. Jean dies in his arms.

In the aftermath, Storm and Wolverine resume duties of running and maintaining the mutant academy. Rogue has returned, and confesses to Bobby she has taken the "cure", having decided that giving up her powers is better than living a life untouchable. McCoy is appointed to an ambassador position at the United Nations, with the President declaring an end to mutant oppression.

In a park, Erik Lensherr, now simply lonely old man, sits at alone at a chessboard, mourning loss of his friend, Charles Xavier. Then he reaches out, tentatively, toward a metal chess piece, and it gives an almost imperceptible shake, hinting he may have retained some of his mutant power after all or that infact the cure itself may have been temporary. The film credits roll. In Ireland, Dr. MacTaggert suddenly hears Xavier speak, hinting that he may have survived (since in the ethics class near the beginning of the movie, he is seen telling his students about the possibility of shifting one's mind into a brain-dead person in order to sustain one's life).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_The_Last_Stand#Plot_Summary
 
well if this had come out a couple of weeks ago, then fair enough but everyone is pretty much going to know pretty soon...

if they have waited this long to watch the film, why are they then going to come and read this?

the only people that are really going to come in here are people that have already watched it.
 
Odin's Lapdog said:
well if this had come out a couple of weeks ago, then fair enough but everyone is pretty much going to know pretty soon...

if they have waited this long to watch the film, why are they then going to come and read this?

the only people that are really going to come in here are people that have already watched it.

some people can never wait
 
Dark_Zavin said:
Yeah..that moment is soo sad...

i also found the part where xavier dies sad, when he smiles and boom hes gone
 
yeah...my gf wanted to cry in that moment...it's just that seeing that old man being happy a sec just before he dissapears...it's just so emotional
 
Dark_Zavin said:
yeah...my gf wanted to cry in that moment...it's just that seeing that old man being happy a sec just before he dissapears...it's just so emotional

glad im not alone
 
Dark_Zavin said:
yeah...my gf wanted to cry in that moment...it's just that seeing that old man being happy a sec just before he dissapears...it's just so emotional
It was the same smile as when Jean spoke through him at the end of X2, but that moment had more effect IMO!......
 
i nearly cried too. But, there was no need for that scene after the closing credits.
 
lol the people on the cinema I went to cut the credits at the very end!!! there were like 200 people on the room and we're going later to complain directly to the manager!
 
Dark_Zavin said:
lol the people on the cinema I went to cut the credits at the very end!!! there were like 200 people on the room and we're going later to complain directly to the manager!

lol, i'm sure thats illigal, they have to show the how film until it stops automatically.
 
1- WE DON'T KNOW IF CYKE IS REALLY DEAD: WE DON'T SEE IT.

2- XAVIER IS NOT DEAD.

3- NOW I LIKE THIS STORYLINE BECAUSE #1 and #2.
 
biggles2000uk said:
lol, i'm sure thats illigal, they have to show the how film until it stops automatically.

come to think of it this guy (who cleans up afterwards) was just standing pretty much over us waiting till we leave :mad:
 
The movie sounds fantastic. I can't wait to see it this week.
 
Whoa, Trooper. I must have missed something. I just screened it this morning and walked out angry before the end credits finished. Usually I stay till the end of the film, but the film as a whole was a disappointment and so I left as soon as the credits began to roll. Shows me then. That still doesn't let them off the hook, though. I still feel that someone here, whether it was Ratner or the producers, who decided that this terrible storyline was worthy of greenlighting. I could write a story better than that, and for them to just kill off three main characters in one film? That's bad filmmaking. It would have been one thing for Jean to sacrifice herself to save the world, or for Scott or the Professor to do so, but all three? Boy, somebody not only wanted this series DOA, but they wanted to desecrate the corpse while they were at it.

Turning Wolverine into a love-sick puppy, Scott into a broken man who gladly walks into his death and Jean into a psychopath is just wrong on all levels, and their ridiculous reasons for all of this don't pan out either. Surely, the Phoenix is a creature of raw power and passion, but why kill Scott? And the Professor is the most powerful mutant mind on earth and he got wasted by Jean in record time? And Wolverine, in a poorly written and even more horribly directed scene, impales his love in order to save the world and has a crying fit afterwards? They threw out everything that made the X-Men so popular for so many years, and decided to kill the series and make sure it stays buried. Even with the ending as you described Trooper, I still don't see them doing it again and they made sure of it by killing off three of their main characters, neutering Magneto (although that little wiggle by the chess piece would say otherwise) and the overall treatment of the story as a whole would indicate that there would be no chance of ever seeing another X-Men, with the same cast or a newer one.
 
captainkirkh said:
Whoa, Trooper. I must have missed something. I just screened it this morning and walked out angry before the end credits finished. Usually I stay till the end of the film, but the film as a whole was a disappointment and so I left as soon as the credits began to roll. Shows me then. That still doesn't let them off the hook, though. I still feel that someone here, whether it was Ratner or the producers, who decided that this terrible storyline was worthy of greenlighting. I could write a story better than that, and for them to just kill off three main characters in one film? That's bad filmmaking. It would have been one thing for Jean to sacrifice herself to save the world, or for Scott or the Professor to do so, but all three? Boy, somebody not only wanted this series DOA, but they wanted to desecrate the corpse while they were at it.

Turning Wolverine into a love-sick puppy, Scott into a broken man who gladly walks into his death and Jean into a psychopath is just wrong on all levels, and their ridiculous reasons for all of this don't pan out either. Surely, the Phoenix is a creature of raw power and passion, but why kill Scott? And the Professor is the most powerful mutant mind on earth and he got wasted by Jean in record time? And Wolverine, in a poorly written and even more horribly directed scene, impales his love in order to save the world and has a crying fit afterwards? They threw out everything that made the X-Men so popular for so many years, and decided to kill the series and make sure it stays buried. Even with the ending as you described Trooper, I still don't see them doing it again and they made sure of it by killing off three of their main characters, neutering Magneto (although that little wiggle by the chess piece would say otherwise) and the overall treatment of the story as a whole would indicate that there would be no chance of ever seeing another X-Men, with the same cast or a newer one.

if theirs any one to blame its fox for deciding to rush things, brett is a good director. dont worry x-men 4 will come, theres a market for it and that market is the thousands of fans across the world, marvel wont pass out on its fans like that even though fox might
 
captainkirkh said:
Whoa, Trooper. I must have missed something. I just screened it this morning and walked out angry before the end credits finished. Usually I stay till the end of the film, but the film as a whole was a disappointment and so I left as soon as the credits began to roll. Shows me then. That still doesn't let them off the hook, though. I still feel that someone here, whether it was Ratner or the producers, who decided that this terrible storyline was worthy of greenlighting. I could write a story better than that, and for them to just kill off three main characters in one film? That's bad filmmaking. It would have been one thing for Jean to sacrifice herself to save the world, or for Scott or the Professor to do so, but all three? Boy, somebody not only wanted this series DOA, but they wanted to desecrate the corpse while they were at it.

Turning Wolverine into a love-sick puppy, Scott into a broken man who gladly walks into his death and Jean into a psychopath is just wrong on all levels, and their ridiculous reasons for all of this don't pan out either. Surely, the Phoenix is a creature of raw power and passion, but why kill Scott? And the Professor is the most powerful mutant mind on earth and he got wasted by Jean in record time? And Wolverine, in a poorly written and even more horribly directed scene, impales his love in order to save the world and has a crying fit afterwards? They threw out everything that made the X-Men so popular for so many years, and decided to kill the series and make sure it stays buried. Even with the ending as you described Trooper, I still don't see them doing it again and they made sure of it by killing off three of their main characters, neutering Magneto (although that little wiggle by the chess piece would say otherwise) and the overall treatment of the story as a whole would indicate that there would be no chance of ever seeing another X-Men, with the same cast or a newer one.

you say what i feel...thank you..i havent even seen it yet...but im disappointed already ...i think they fouled this up royally.....:down
 
Trooper said:
if theirs any one to blame its fox for deciding to rush things, brett is a good director. dont worry x-men 4 will come, theres a market for it and that market is the thousands of fans across the world, marvel wont pass out on its fans like that even though fox might

even if x4 does come out..it will be rubbish..this film lost the audience..... this series was revered by comic and movie fans alikex4 will only be seen by comic fans:down ... gen pub will have lost interest:(

x4 will fall by the likes of t3 and star wars eps 1 & 2
 
DarthRekal said:
..this film lost the audience.....
That's a bit of a premature statement as it hasn't even been released worldwide yet?!......
 
~†~§iX~†~ said:
That's a bit of a premature statement as it hasn't even been released worldwide yet?!......

is it?.......:confused: its been screened numerous times and the consensus is just a bunch of action glued together very little chracter development or backstory.... a means to an END if you will
 
DarthRekal said:
is it?.......:confused: its been screened numerous times and the consensus is just a bunch of action glued together very little chracter development or backstory.... a means to an END if you will
Doesn't mean it's lost it's audience. You need to see total gross with a ratio of the decline of sales each week it is on release to get a better idea of whether it has lost it's audience. It doesn't matter that it has been screened various times, it goes on general release today. How can it loose an audience that haven't seen it yet, when they don't come to sites like this, Rotten Tomatoes and AICN?!......
 
~†~§iX~†~ said:
Doesn't mean it's lost it's audience. You need to see total gross with a ratio of the decline of sales each week it is on release to get a better idea of whether it has lost it's audience. It doesn't matter that it has been screened various times, it goes on general release today. How can it loose an audience that haven't seen it yet, when they don't come to sites like this, Rotten Tomatoes and AICN?!......

exactly! :up:
 
i still cant believe this movie is getting flamed by 50 percent of its fans
 

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