Dark Phoenix – Glad this one won’t rise again
Movie Rating – 3 out of 10
Family Rating – The usual sci-fi violence and battles. Darker than the Marvel movies
Dark Phoenix is the last of the X-men movies before the franchise moves into the Marvel Universe. Unfortunately, with Dark Phoenix, this series goes out with a whimper rather than a stirring ending. I have mentioned previously that time travel that creates alternate endings frustrate me endlessly and so it goes with this movie. In providing this review I admit that I haven’t been a fan since after X-men future past.
So even though Jean Gray has died, come back to life and experienced the Phoenix effect in previous movies they decide to tell the story all over again. Jean already possessed superior powers that needed to be controlled but through an outer space (not out of body) experience, those powers are magnified by the zillions. However, unlike Captain Marvel, she chooses to let her emotions control her powers and takes it out on anyone she doesn’t like. In the meantime, some aliens (not much back story) stalk her so that they can take her powers and regenerate their own race on the earth at our expense. While all this is happening Raven, who I thought was Mystique, questions Xavier’s motives for supporting mutants and developing the X-men squad.
The characters are all familiar but it appears they ar