Don't bother watching X-men Dark Phoenix

The X-men movie franchise have been around for over a decade and the Dark phoenix is the last movie to be produced by Fox. When I heard this movie was being released, I didn’t have any expectations considering the last time they did a story about the dark phoenix, it didn’t stick the landing. That being said I actually prefer X-men the last stand compared to this movie.

So the story is the X-men go into space and Jean Grey absorbs the phoenix force. Now she’s struggling with the power inside of her. The plot for this movie just wasn’t interesting enough. It felt rushed, I wish they would have had more time to write a better story arch for this movie or at least get writers who know what they are doing.

Personally I wished they made this movie rated R. The phoenix force is incredibly powerful and can do some serious damage. Don’t get me wrong you do see how powerful Jean is in the movie, but you don’t really get to feel how menacing she can be. It felt like they were holding her back.

The special effects weren’t the best either. We know that this isn’t real but when you go into the movie we at least expect it to feel and look real especially with how good CGI has gotten.

The timelines in the movie were pretty messed up. I guess the events of X-men days of future past changed the timeline, so that means the first two X-men didn’t happen. If that’s not a big deal to you, you won’t notice it.

There were some redeeming qualities about the movie. For one the acting was solid. James Mcavoy as Charles Xaviour didn’t disappoint. He’s such a good actor neither does Michael Fasbender as Magnito they are both great. Night crawler was just straight up vicious, you do get to see some pretty good fight scenes when he’s there and the train scene. That was good but it felt like it came in the movie a little too late.

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This movie just didn’t execute how the dark phoenix character really is. Everyone in the movie just looked like they were done. They were done with the movie, they were done with the franchise. They just wanted to be done with it. Honesty it’s not that big of a deal considering Fox sold the X-men rights to Marvel. So we’ll definitely see more of them in the MCU. You should watch any other X-men movie released. They are a lot better than this particular one. Spoiler warning if you do go see this movie there’s no post credit scene, so once it’s done you can leave immediately.

I’m not the only one who thinks this movie was’t that good. Critics are not exactly fond of this movie. It has a 23% review on rotten tomatoes and it has one of the lowest box office releases in X- men movie history. But maybe you’d like it more than everyone else either way… my opinion is don’t bother.

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