Dark Phoenix Falls Flat

After almost 20 years and 12 movies the Fox X-Men franchise comes to a conclusion with Dark Phoenix…………and boy did it fall flat! As an X-Men fan I was highly disappointed in this movie. This was their second chance to take a shot at the Dark Phoenix Saga and they did WORSE than X-Men The Last Stand.

The plot felt way too rushed and crunched together, some of the CGI was off. The villains were boring and nothing but skrull knock-offs! I don’t know if they were suppose to be the Hellfire Club or a bootleg Shi’ar Empire but they failed to deliver anything interesting!

A lot of the characters did things that were very out of character. For example Professor X vainly seeking glory, Beast siding with Magneto. Mystique was just straight up bland and you could tell Jennifer Lawrence was just over it. Cyclops was back to being one dimensional, and basically didn’t do anything unless it involved Jean Grey, and Nightcrawler barely said anything till the end.

The few saving graces of this movie are as usual James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender. Sophie Turner was great as Jean Grey. Nicholas Hoult did good as Beast despite the questionable routevthey sent him Storm did an awesome display in the final battle with her powers.

Basically, this movie should’ve have been way better. I guess you can blame it on Disney buying out Fox a few months ago so they had to rush it. Let’s just be happy The the X-Men we finally with the MCU and we’ll see them again in probably 5 years.

Should you see Dark Phoenix and what rating do I give it, absolutely not and 2/10.