Review of Dark Phoenix (2019) by Jluis_001 — 07 Jun 2019

The X-Men have always been my favorite group of superheroes. From any publisher. Together with Batman they were the first comic books I started reading as a kid and I always loved their stories and loved the characters.

But cinema has never done them justice. I'm sorry but it's true.

Beyond the love I have for the first two films and the committed work of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, cinema has never done them justice. And I will not say anything about all the plotting and the narrative lines that Fox made, after all they're already a lost issue and beyond the results of the franchise, cinema has never done them justice.

Needless to say that considering the fact that The X-Men now belong again to Marvel, a certain part of me feels satisfaction in knowing that the characters will finally have a better representation. Or at least I want to believe that.

According to Kevin Feige, it's still a long time before we see them in the MCU and that's fine. They should give people time to get the idea that the franchise will be rebuilt. After all, it was 19 years under Fox's tutelage and the studio unfortunately had as a swan song this empty film.

And I do think this film will be the ending for Fox because I doubt that New Mutants will be released. And it's sad that they ended up adapting once again the story of Dark Phoenix and they **** it up again. I mean with all the good stories from the characters, they chose that one again?

Without inspiration, without imagination, without drama and with little action. Predictable, yes, even if you don't believe it.

The narrative is empty. There's no catharsis or more emotion. Not even in the final act and especially after having revealed that important death in the trailers. Even from there they **** things up.

The timeline is ridiculous. Another ten years have passed since Apocalypse and everyone is still the same. A lot of credit for most of the characters since for some 30 years passed and for others 20 between films and nobody aged a single day.

What a sad farewell on behalf of Fox and these X-Men with whom I was never happy. Let's see what their new film future holds because there's nothing left for them here.

* From the new cast the only one who I would rescue for the MCU would be Michael Fassbender. I know it will not happen, but I would have liked to continue having it as Magneto.