10 Terrible Sequels To Awesome Films That We Wish Didn't Exist

4. X Men: The Last Stand

The final film in the X-Men trilogy did what a lot of superhero franchises have done. Create a solid, entertaining origin story, follow up with a magnificent sequel and fall at the final hurdle to deliver a lacklustre final entry. Spider-Man followed this pattern but it never fell into the lows as much as this film did. There are a number of things that confound me about X Men: The Last Stand. For the epic closing of a sage about mutants versus humanity, it is the shortest film of the three and yet packs the most story in. Everything rushes along at breakneck pace that you barely have a chance to take in the ridiculous plot points before we€™re on the next bit. Cyclops€™ death is so off hand I would have imagined any fan of his would have been fuming. And Professor X€™s death is equally as pointless. It seems like these moments were added in just to add drama when there was already plenty of drama to be had. The Phoenix storyline is a wasted opportunity and destroys any build up from the second film. Famke Janssen just seems to stare into the distance for half the film. We€™re presented with a number of mutant villains with no real identity. Ben Foster€™s Angel is barely in the film, even though he is presented as a new pivotal character in the trailers. Vinnie Jones€™ Juggernaut is appalling and is only counterbalanced by the perfect casting of Kelsey Grammer€™s Beast. I€™m still baffled why Bryan Singer left the X Men franchise to make the dull Superman Returns and I wonder if we would have had a better film if he stayed. At the very least, the film needed a rewrite and an extra 30-45 minutes to give the film the pacing it deserved. Director Brett Ratner obviously decided quiet character moments were rubbish and we needed big action sequences€ except, aside from the brilliant moment when Magneto pulls the Golden Gate Bridge towards Alcatraz, there isn€™t much of anything. And then the whole cure thing doesn€™t really work anyway because the injected Magneto begins to show signs of recovery before the end credits have even begun to roll. It was an extremely disappointing end to what had been a great superhero series. Bryan Singer has mentioned in several interviews recently that he intends to fix the mistakes from The Last Stand when making X Men: Days Of Future Passed. I€™m assuming a complete re-write of the history of this film is in order?