X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Closing out the Fox era of ten - Men movies , Dark Phoenixrevisits the story of Jean Grey fall target to the powerful Phoenix Force - butthe reviewsare even worse than they were forX - Men : The Last Stand . Dark Phoenixis the feature directorial first appearance of long - time hug drug - Men film writer and manufacturer Simon Kinberg , and starsGame of Thrones ' Sophie Turner as Jean Grey alongside the balance of the prequel series ' cast : James McAvoy , Michael Fassbender , Tye Sheridan , Alexandra Shipp , Nicholas Hoult , Jennifer Lawrence , Evan Peters , and Kodi Smit - McPhee . Jessica Chastain also joins the cast this time around as alien villain Vuk .
Dark Phoenix’sRotten Tomatoesscore currently posture at 22 % on its orifice weekend - theworst in the X - Men franchise . While many fans may have hoped that the last clip we see this finical version of the X - Men would be a prideful exit , it seems like more of a whimper than a bang . Many of the negative reviews ofDark Phoenixhave the same criticisms : that the movie is bland and finger lifeless and deflate , and that the actors ' carrying out reflect how uninspiring the stuff they ’re figure out with is .
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TheX - man franchisehas had its up and down , but there ’s no denying that it encounter an implemental character in the early days of the current superhero picture renaissance . Unfortunately , it looks like the enfranchisement that started out so strongly with 2000’sX - Menhas hail to a substantially less telling goal . Here ’s a sample distribution of the reviews forDark Phoenix :
The Globe and Mail :
" A movie so deadening , flat and totally joyless that , in the absence of anything compelling flowering on covert , one ’s judgment may be forgive for turning to the incorporated machinations labour behind it … short in the direction of table place setting had occur in the run - up to Dark Phoenix , which hold it palpate less like a grand finale , and more like a rush ending hammer out under a wet deadline . "
Rolling Stone :
" Dark Phoenix does n’t just suck giving metre . It ’s the worst flick ever in the X - Men serial publication . That ’s 12 films since the first X - Men in 2000 . Even serial grim compass point — that ’s you X - Men Apocalypse — proffer compensation . Dark Phoenix just lie there like a dying Pisces , futilely flapping about on res publica while it waits for the inevitable dying of the luminance . "
Flickering Myth :
" Almost every single scene in this film , action or otherwise , suffers from Kinberg ’s oppressively dull , flat direction . On one manus there ’s the to a fault frantic space rescue set - piece and the choppily edited mutant super - free-for-all in New York , and on the other we have dialogues unspooled with an utterly unfussed sense of efficiency . "
The Hollywood newsman :
" At its heart , this is a level about what an infinitely talented fair sex pick out to do with her life ; unfortunately , it does n’t play like one , as Kinberg pitches his script in the most histrionic direction possible while the particular pulse multiply inside Jean grow as well as fester by the moment . "
look at the other end of the spectrum , there are n’t any rave review forDark Phoenixout there , though a few critics did find enough to like about the movie to give it a positive overall verdict . Here are some of the more lucky takes onDark Phoenix :
NBC News :
" Director Simon Kinberg has read this inauspicious fabric and made a comme il faut superhero pic . Dark Phoenix manages the difficult task of remaining honest to the reservoir textile ’s tragic vision while dumping most of its banal misogyny . The issue is an often moving story about failure and redemption , with more emotional system of weights than most superhero smash hit can muster up . "
The Scotsman :
" This is a moving picture that , unusually , is carried along by the strength of its cast ’s performances , not the flamboyance of its peculiar gist . Chastain , McAvoy , Lawrence and Michael Fassbender ( returning as Magneto ) grind their characters in ways that make their dilemmas and motivations plausible , while Turner does a undecomposed caper of explore the complexities of someone squeeze to reckon with suddenly being the most sinewy individual on the satellite . "
More : Read Screen Rant ’s Review of Dark Phoenix
