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VIOLENT TIMES.(X-Men: The Last Stand)(Movie review)
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Once you've seen, in the third "X-Men" movie, Hugh Jackman hurling through the air and smashing into a tree, or Halle Berry spinning like a top as she ascends to nowhere, you don't need to see it again. But Brett Ratner, taking over as the director of the franchise from Bryan Singer, who directed the first two movies in the series, has no fear of repetition. Anything but. Ratner, the auteur of the frenzied "Rush Hour" movies, is a crude synthesizer of comedy and action tropes, and in "X-Men: The Last Stand" he disdains the liquid beauty and the poetic fantasy of Singer's work, and trashes his actors by repeatedly slamming ...
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