Review of The New Mutants (2020) by Jluis_001 — 11 Sep 2020

Long before Disney's acquisition of Fox began, the X-Men franchise was a mess in terms of cohesion and quality.

The original trilogy ended on very bad terms with The Last Stand and the first Wolverine spin-off was a disgrace.

They tried again with First Class. Good, but forgettable.

They were able to restart everything in a better way with the ambitious Days of Future Past, because that film's ending was pretty much a reboot but, no, Fox **** it up again and they chose to deliver the terrible X-Men: Apocalypse and then it became quite evident that the franchise was dying and it was dying in a very ugly way.

Logan gave a satisfactory conclusion to the character, but let's be honest, that Wolverine was very, very far away from being the Wolverine that we deserved.

X-Men Dark Phoenix was the last nail in the franchise's coffin and I say this because New Mutants, even after its brutal delays, is nothing more than the leftovers of the rotting corpse.

I don't know what kind of story they tried to tell here but it's quite easily to see that the narrative approach never fits these characters.

I know they were trying to separate this film from what the others of the franchise did but it doesn't work.

I admire they tried because it's an example that you can try different stories with characters from comic books but you also have to know how to do things right and do some justice to the characters.

It's no surprise that the only person who leaves an impression is Anya Taylor-Joy, maybe this job will get her a better future character in the MCU or maybe in DC, but she could definitely be in a better film.

From what remains, I can only say that this is finally the farewell for the mutants at this stage of their life on the big screen.

What's in store for them in the MCU? I can only hope for better stories.