Monday 13 January 2020

Dark Phoenix

We finally got round to watching the last of the Fox X-Men movies, Dark Phoenix. The reviews at the time put us off of going to see it at the cinema but I really wanted to see what it was like.

In Dark Phoenix, the X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe: one of their own, Jean Grey. During a rescue mission in space, Jean is nearly killed when she is hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. Wrestling with this entity inside her, Jean unleashes her powers in ways she can neither comprehend nor contain. With Jean spiraling out of control, and hurting the ones she loves most, she begins to unravel the very fabric that holds the X-Men together. Now, with this family falling apart, they must find a way to unite, not only to save Jean’s soul, but to save our very planet from aliens who wish to weaponize this force and rule the galaxy.

The reviews weren't great but it wasn't too bad. Dark Phoenix seemed like a lazy attempt to close out the X-Men series as Fox headed into the Disney buy out and felt somewhat rushed as a result. It carried the same look and feel of the previous X-Men films so there was great familiarity but it seemed to lack something.

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