Imagine making a movie that has such big stakes, but make it so nobody cares about any of the characters.

Jean Grey - Yawn, [spoiler] she struggled with controlling her powers, controlling her emotions. Some part understandable but I felt no emotion. [/spoiler]
Professor X - [spoiler] Acts like a Villain for the first half of the film.[/spoiler]
Mystique - Shouldn't have hired Jennifer Lawrence, she couldn't handle the make-up. [spoiler]Attempts a death scene but leaves no emotional impact.[/spoiler]
Quicksilver - Has some of the most iconic scenes in comic book films and they don't give him his scene. [spoiler]Gets injured early on and just disappears until the end of the film.[/spoiler]
Storm - Was just there to do damage.
Beast - The only character with correct motivation and you somewhat understand why he feels the way he does. Just feels like bad casting personally. Hoult is just too youthful and skinny for beast.
Cyclops - His character is just completely centred around Jean. Feels like we never get to see just Scott.
Nightcrawler - [spoiler]Where does this come from, he just become a murdering psycho and the build up just seems too out of character for him.[/spoiler]
Magneto - Probably the best performance, [spoiler] character flipped sides very easily considering his motivation for wanted to kill Jean.[/spoiler]
Jennifer Chastain/[spoiler]Aliens[/spoiler] - Why, what, who, what, why.

Good scene - [spoiler]Using their power to fight over control of the helicopter[/spoiler]
Bad Scene - [spoiler]Every single one with Jennifer Lawrence[/spoiler]

**Warning Lot of Spoilers ahead for THIS MOVIE & Avengers Endgame( if you havent seen endgame and are seeing dark phoenix, u belong in a museum).
Wont use spoilers tag. will be too many.**

Remember when captain america picked up the hammer.
Remember "avengers assemble".
Remember all the cool moments from so many awesome movies. hell even the previous xmen movies.

Good luck trying to find them here. Not a single cinematic moment created in a comic book movie full of wonderful and loved characters played by talented actors. How do you F*** this up.....

The movie starts of with so much promise. And then we see Jennifer Lawrence, (who btw is not in the mystique makeup coz she is a huge star now. whatever happened to "mutant and proud"), scolding Charles that X-men should be called X-women now...

And then 2-4 people clapped and laughed in the theatre. #CringeAlert

wow...

soo.... i guess Hank, nightcrawler, quicksilver and scott are not men......
enough already with this sjw nonsense.

It is all downhill from there. The writing and direction is just bad. It is tragic that this is the last xmen film of this "continuity/saga" under Fox.

I cant believe im saying this but Xmen Apocalypse was so much better. I cant believe im gonna say that EVEN Xmen 3 the last stand at least had some coherence and a plot driving forward compared to this lost cause.

The villain is played by jessica chastain who is playing............. YEAH I DONT KNOW. i have to go to wikipedia or google to probably find out . otherwise she is just there.... manipulating jean gray to become evil...

The performances by actors are great and there is just one tiny action set piece outside Jean Gray's house. it lasted a few seconds but it was so promising. but the movie failed so much after that.

[spoiler]Mystique[/spoiler] is killed off there and Quicksilver is "conveniently" injured. you know...... coz he can literally solve all problems the movie might ever have. also his special effects probably cost a lot, as much as the whole production.

It was interesting to see Hank and Magneto to team up to kill Jean Gray but that lasted again like 10 seconds where everyone reunites to protect Jean Gray from Jessica Chastain who is playing the role of .......... YEAH I DONT KNOW .... a bad woman/alien....

So many moments could be created based on these characters to move the audience. based on their powers.

When hank comes to tell magneto that [spoiler]mystique[/spoiler] is dead there was a crashed helicopter behind him. I thought he would probably destroy it or something with his powers in rage. Justifiable power usage in moments But no, he sheds a tear....

But you get the cheeky moments like Scott asking Storm to put ice in her drinks... Really.... There is no ice at that party. If storm is not around they will have drinks without ice??? nonsense screenwriting

Everything is dark. Every scene is dark . Most of the set pieces are set in dark (except that jean gray house scene which was decent for few seconds)

Even the damn climax is in a train in dark. Couldnt really tell what was going on . All hodgepodge action. full of confusing moments.

Its just sad. I dont want it to be avengers end game. but this movie never tries.

Only thing commendable are the actors' performances. Nightcrawler after being weird in the last movie gets to shine a bit when he finally enrages and start fighting in climax. but that again lasts only few seconds.

Sophie Turner does a good job. But the writing does not do enough justice.

I mean the final fight in Jean vs Jessica Chastain, she taunts to Jean that "your emotions make you weak" , mid - fight.
ok awesome. i wonder what would be a cool comeback to that. which make you pump up in excitement as Jean finishes her off.
Lets ask some 10 year old shall we.
10 year old: "ummm just use the opposite sentence. YOURE WRONG. MY EMOTIONS MAKE ME STRONG !!"
Good job 10 year old. you should join our crew.

im not kidding. this is how Jean replies to whats-her-name before finishing her off.

It all boils down to how good the villain/antagonist in the end for every movie/story (at least in a CBM).

X men Apocalypse whatever kind of movie it was, it was at least having a powerful villain performance by Oscar Isaac who had a decent screen presence and powerful delivery of dialogues at some places ( the missile scene ).

and here we have jessica chastain who plays......... WHO THE F*** IS SHE PLAYING???? AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT? DID I MISS A MOVIE OR SOME POST CREDIT SCENE FROM BEFORE. F***!!!.

average movie . see it if you are bored. but it will definitely tarnish your xmen memories. I actually re-watched xmen apocalypse immediately afterwards to see how much better it was then this mess.

My first reaction to the movie was how few people there were in the opening night audience. I thought it would be packed. I certainly had been looking forward to it being released (I loved the franchise from its first film in 2002). Afterwards I discovered that audiences may have been deterred by early reviews. But, the people leaving the show seemed to be less than impressed, as well. You already know I talk to people as they leave a show about their impressions of it. This time, I thought I'd share a few of the random comments from departing patrons:
* "My kids always like the movies I take them to - all three of my teenagers hated this movie."
* "Disney made them tame this movie down, I'm curious if it HAD been a better movie before the changes."
* "With such heavy weight talent and multiple awards won by three of the cast, the disparity of performances by the rest was more pronounced."
* "Such a lack luster end to a franchise that never met it's potential"
* "Who is Vuk? Is there any basis in the original sources for Jessica Chastain's character, or her alien race of D'Abari*? Who are they?"
* "What were they thinking giving this final chapter to the guy who gave us the mess that was LAST STAND?"
* "I was looking forward to see them recreate, in CGI, the flaming Phoenix of the comic books and then we get a few seconds of it - at.the.end!"
Personally, I was bothered by how this completely destroys any credible chronology in the 12 films. They had hinted at a darker past for Jean Grey, but this past rewrites a future for the Patrick Stewart generation. (Was this a different multi-verse?) I found the acting was very uneven. The Beast and Cyclops were miscast and the characters were poorly drawn, neither of them would have merited their love interests' attention. Despite a poorly written script with horribly written characters, Sophie Turner performance lacked nothing. Even her fellow cast mate, Michael Fassbender, lauded her for her craft: her preparedness and technical proficiency**. The soundtrack was powerful. I didn't hate it, but the inconsistencies flattened the experience of the movie. I was hoping for an 8 (great) or 9 (superb) end to this incarnation of X-Men, but I give this film a 6 (fair) out of 10. [Superhero Action Adventure]

Notes and Footnotes:
*It seems there is source material for the D'Abari. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Bari
Note: Rachel Paige does try to chart the chronology of X-Men in her article you will find here: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/06/234590/dark-phoenix-x-men-movies-chronological-order
**https://entertainment.inquirer.net/332585/michael-fassbender-says-dark-phoenix-is-game-of-thrones-stars-movie

Well... I thought The Last Stand was bad. You know, the movie where they took one of the most classic of classic legendary Claremont X-Men stories and merged it with a Joss Whedon X-Men story line that had nothing to do with Dark Phoenix and.... just lost the plot entirely.

I mean that was pretty bad. This is worse.

This is ultra woke Politically Correct kinda Ghostbusters 2016, they have a message about genderstudies that trumps the story and didn't you know that everyone of a certain race, gender, and sexuality is absolute evil even if they have a long history of being the good guy sort of plot.

And, in the end, it even had less to do with the Dark Phoenix Saga than the Last Stand did. Source material... even X-Men story in name only... and I mean that even after X-Men lost the Marvel Flagship marquee status and did the same downward trajectory as, well, as the X-Men reboot did.

I don't know if _Dark Phoenix_ is the **worst** entry in the X-Men franchise. I feel like I remember being much more angry walking out of _Last Stand_ than this one. _Dark Phoenix_ didn't really make me "angry"... It didn't make me feel anything I guess. But there was just **nothing** I liked about this. Like, _Apocalypse_ was a bad movie, absolutely, but I really enjoyed that bit in the middle where the young X-Men got to the shopping centre together. That elevated it for me, even if it didn't stop it being a bad movie. _Dark Phoenix_ has no such moment. Nothing. I. Liked.

_Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible._