Film Review: X-men Dark Phoenix
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Cert: 12A
Director: Simon Kinberg
Screenwriter: (story "The Dark Phoenix Saga") John Byrne, Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, (written by) Simon Kinberg, (comic book created by) Jack Kirby, Stan Lee.
Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Evan Peters, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jessica Chastain, Scott Shepherd, Ato Essandoh, Brian d'Arcy James, Halston Sage, Lamar Johnson
Running time: 1h 53min
Parents advised reading before viewing the film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity:
Violence & Gore:
Profanity:
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking:
Frightening/Intense Scenes:
Story: Jean Grey begins to develop incredible powers that corrupt and turn her into a Dark Phoenix. Now the X-Men will have to decide if the life of a team member is worth more than all the people living in the world.
Likes: Right im not gonna beat around the bush, I know a lot of people say everyone bashes x-men men movies which quite frankly some people have a reason to and people need to stop being wet blankets.
X-men Dark Phoenix is a Good film on it own if it was a reboot style film for the X-men movie which I don't think it was, since it following the story from 2016 X-men Apocolyse film which is why I have one slighty problem with this film.
Yes, there is a slight dialogue exchange of Gender Politics thrown in the film, glad it not all the way through the film. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender are brilliant as always bring brilliant performance throughout the whole new Xmen franchise.
Performance wise from the actors and actress is great along with some great special effects which carry this film actually, try and give a more emotional impact with the help of one of the best Movie musician Han Zimmer which gives the film more impact in the dramatic moments.
Ive got, to be honest, Sophie Turner truly carried this film with her performance and delivery on the character she was playing which is the best parts of the film, since her performance as the Phoenix delivers a more emotional and frightening tone of losing control.
This is the whole thing with this film as it feels like Fox know that the franchise might be rebooted with Disney buying them out, they just made this film without thinking because there is one major flaw in this film which I will explain in dislikes.
Not that this film as a whole wasn't Great, it was good but there was a lot of missed thing they could've done with this story, special with how talent and amazing Sophie is with her acting and cast they have in this. So it might disappoint some viewer.
Dislikes:
Overall: Good film, Great acting, Sophie Turner acting performance gives Jean gray a more frightening and emotionally driven character, though story side is flawed.
Rating: 4.4 out of 5 for Entertainment / 7.2 out of 10 for continues story.
Cert: 12A
Director: Simon Kinberg
Screenwriter: (story "The Dark Phoenix Saga") John Byrne, Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, (written by) Simon Kinberg, (comic book created by) Jack Kirby, Stan Lee.
Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Evan Peters, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jessica Chastain, Scott Shepherd, Ato Essandoh, Brian d'Arcy James, Halston Sage, Lamar Johnson
Running time: 1h 53min
Parents advised reading before viewing the film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity:
- None
Violence & Gore:
- Something happens to one of the Main characters Blood is Shown Briefly
- Usual Fights scene in x-men.
Profanity:
- Mild
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking:
- Whiskey was seen being drunk by main characters
Frightening/Intense Scenes:
- The Aliens appearance briefly might be frightening for younger viewers
- Phoenix force Powers are frightening with a brief moment of a tragic event that might upset or disturb younger viewers.
Story: Jean Grey begins to develop incredible powers that corrupt and turn her into a Dark Phoenix. Now the X-Men will have to decide if the life of a team member is worth more than all the people living in the world.
Likes: Right im not gonna beat around the bush, I know a lot of people say everyone bashes x-men men movies which quite frankly some people have a reason to and people need to stop being wet blankets.
X-men Dark Phoenix is a Good film on it own if it was a reboot style film for the X-men movie which I don't think it was, since it following the story from 2016 X-men Apocolyse film which is why I have one slighty problem with this film.
Yes, there is a slight dialogue exchange of Gender Politics thrown in the film, glad it not all the way through the film. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender are brilliant as always bring brilliant performance throughout the whole new Xmen franchise.
Performance wise from the actors and actress is great along with some great special effects which carry this film actually, try and give a more emotional impact with the help of one of the best Movie musician Han Zimmer which gives the film more impact in the dramatic moments.
Ive got, to be honest, Sophie Turner truly carried this film with her performance and delivery on the character she was playing which is the best parts of the film, since her performance as the Phoenix delivers a more emotional and frightening tone of losing control.
This is the whole thing with this film as it feels like Fox know that the franchise might be rebooted with Disney buying them out, they just made this film without thinking because there is one major flaw in this film which I will explain in dislikes.
Not that this film as a whole wasn't Great, it was good but there was a lot of missed thing they could've done with this story, special with how talent and amazing Sophie is with her acting and cast they have in this. So it might disappoint some viewer.
Dislikes:
- The first problem is the story is slightly bland, it feels safe and I agree with what Chris Stuckman said with this film, I do feel it could've been better with R-rating. It could've explored Phoenix powers more in a frightening manner, that would have given dark phoenix a darker tone especial with the way Sophie Turner looked when she was using the Phoenix powers.
- The thing I was on about which is a major flaw in the film is the fact it follows from X-men Apocolyse which came out in 2016. Ya, most people will say well the future was changed in x-men Days of past future yet that film came out in 2014, which mean X-men Dark Phoenix is following X-men Apocolyse.
Here the problem with this, at the end of x-men Apocolyse Sophie Turner Character Jean grey use's the phoenix force powers to destory Apocolyse right, but in X-men Dark Phoenix she only gets the powers from the space mission which is seen in the trailer.
This makes zero sense and has no continuity from X-men Apocolyse which is confusing. It's like they didn't bother watching the last film or didn't care because since disney brought Fox the franchise would be rebooted anyway which seem likely here.
Overall: Good film, Great acting, Sophie Turner acting performance gives Jean gray a more frightening and emotionally driven character, though story side is flawed.
Rating: 4.4 out of 5 for Entertainment / 7.2 out of 10 for continues story.
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