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Although some may not have feared it because of its faint trailers, Dark Phoenix is putting an end to the long X-Men franchise in a confused and confused way. The film is slightly better than the previous story of the Phoenix saga, X-Men: the last fight, and it is certainly better than X-Men: Apocalypse, excessive and excessive, but Dark Phoenix remains a disappointing final for this almost 20 years. years, while Disney becomes the owner of Fox's X-Men characters. (Yes, let's recognize that The New Mutants is still the latest film produced by Fox and linked to X, to be released next year.)
In appearance, Jean Gray's film, Dark Phoenix, fights for give John a true personality or an identity outside his super powers. The events of Revelation (which seemed to me less dramatic than those of Daniel Krupa, critic of IGN,) which seemed to trigger the awakening of his powers to the Phoenix are simply ignored in favor of a celestial force that lives there during a rescue mission in space. Although this may be more accurate than what happened in The Last Stand and Revelation, his new divine powers only serve McGuffin to the villains and is an excuse for heroes to behave in a melodramatic fashion. The Phoenix force itself is left unexplored and fuzzily defined, essentially the equivalent in the space of a killer shark or a demon looking for a soul to own.
Sophie Turner plays the three shades of Gray that Jean gave here – scared, sobbing and bubbling – as best as she can, but the script flames through her tragic bow, never really finding her a personality to let a real public connect with Jean on the emotional level. The story goes that John was trying to find his agency among two older mentors – Charles Xavier of James McAvoy and the sinister extraterrestrial Jessica Chastain – seeking to control it, but his journey is rushed and his characters schematically sketched. The tragedy of John's tragic situation never has all the weight that she should have and as a result, no harm, in human lives or in relationships, that she and her companions X -Men suffer.
The mysterious steel of Jennifer Lawrence has a causal function to play in this story, which sets Nicholas Hoult's Beast of Vengeance in motion while his loyalties are put to the test . Magneto, tired of the whole world, of Michael Fbadbender apparently found his corner of the world to live in peace before plunging into the fray, where he had a few moments of badbad to strut and even that his vision of the world switches everything throughout the film. But the three characters, perhaps like the franchise itself, explain everything and want to move on.
And the character that upsets them the most is also Xavier, who constantly pontificates, who, after John, has the most pivot arc in history. Professor X's pride is the Achilles' heel of this young incarnation, and Dark Phoenix sees him quite demonized for his past actions (but largely for the same reasons as those previously explored in The Last Stand). Yet James McAvoy sells all of this with painful sincerity, as Xavier has a dilemma that he himself has created. Charles Xavier lives in a proverbial scenario "Pay attention to what you want" because the X-Men are now hailed, while heroes and mutants are less feared and hated than ever – until John gets turns to the dark side and publicly reveals his anger. at Xavier's place.
Director Simon Kinberg, who also wrote the screenplay (and co-wrote The Last Stand), creates decent sets of action throughout his journey, especially a decisive battle aboard a train. , largely dark tone for a good part of the film. Indeed, the first half of the film is the best and most consistent. But the film's highly publicized rehearsals – which would differentiate it from another recent superhero movie (almost certainly Captain Marvel) – clearly affected the second half of Dark Phoenix, as the pace became more erratic and that the logic behind some moments of the plot and the character was lost. 19659002]
One of the biggest missed opportunities of the film is its management of the wicked. An extraterrestrial race – which I will leave nameless for the pleasure of the spoilers – eager to equip itself with a cosmic weapon is not a new idea (as recently described Captain Marvel), but Dark Phoenix never gives any dimension to the character of Chastain or his acolytes. or personality. As with Oscar Isaac in Apocalypse, Dark Phoenix engages a talented actor in a predefined role, Chastain offering flawless performance as a super-dimensional villain. (And you'll have a hard time remembering who Chastain has played since his character's name is said perhaps once in the entire movie.)
The film simply discards who and what these extraterrestrials are – in In fact, humans made the first contact with extraterrestrials and no one even mentions it! – and he never explores them beyond the Other that one has to fear, which is a really strange and negative message to send to an X-Men movie.
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