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1. DARK PHOENIX MOVIE
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DARK PHOENIX SERIES

But Dark Phoenix suggests the X-Men series is played out and beyond saving. Maybe a dash of Stephen King-type horror will help. Plagued by delays and reshoots, the troubled production stars Turner’s GoT sister, Maisie Williams, as a Scottish mutant with the disturbing ability to morph into a wolf. The film itself stays open-ended, pointing to the release next April of Fox’s The New Mutants. But is it? Disney and Marvel are poised for a takeover. Dark Phoenix is purported to be the endgame at Fox for the X series. When a major character dies (I’ll never tell), everyone gets back to business as if they were work-slaving in a bank instead of battling global annihilation. And no one seems more than mildly miffed when under threat from the barely sketched-in world outside. Lip service is paid to these outsiders as outcasts. More damagingly, Dark Phoenix fails to build even a hint of rooting interest in the X peeps as people. Really? That’s all this botch job can come up with? Turner had way more fun sticking it to Littlefinger. But the film devolves into a series of crushingly dull diversions in which the two levitate and stare at each other with laser-beam eyes. The feminization of power? That would be a theme worth developing. Presumably Yuk wants to absorb Jean’s gifts for herself. To add spice, Kinberg introduces another dangerous woman, an alien named Yuk, played by Jessica Chastain with a look of dazed confusion that reflects what we’re all feeling in the audience. Tortured by guilt, Jean goes to the dark side as, yup, Dark Phoenix, prompting a lot of angst and a digital array of shockingly lousy FX. Getting close to Jean can be hazardous and in scene after grindingly repetitive scene Kingberg hammers the idea home. As a child, she caused a deadly car crash with her parents because she couldn’t stand hearing mom play Glen Campbell on the car radio.

Instead, Kinberg sticks us with a series of sequences showing Jean at war with herself. In an early scene, Jean single-handedly stops a NASA space shuttle from exploding in midair. And there’s rising star Sophie Turner - the immortal Sansa Stark from Game of Thrones - showing enormous potential as Jean Grey, whose mend-bending gifts make her the most powerful mutant.

That’s James McEvoy in for Patrick Stewart’s wheelchair-bound Professor X and Michael Fassbender doing the honors for Ian McKellen’s Magneto. Related: Real Reason Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine Is Not in Dark Phoenixĭark Phoenix, set in 1992, is part of the X-Men series ( First Class, Days of Future Past, Apocalypse) in which everyone is younger and hotter. Shouldn’t he know these characters best? You’d think. The degree of awfulness is surprising since the man falling into the abyss with this Phoenix is debuting director Simon Kinberg, who has served long and well as the series producer and sometimes screenwriter. Dark Phoenix just lies there like a dying fish, futilely flapping about on land while it waits for the inevitable dying of the light. Even series low points - that’s you X-Men Apocalypse - offered compensations. That’s 12 films since the first X-Men in 2000.

DARK PHOENIX MOVIE

It’s the worst movie ever in the X-Men series.