Kinberg said that he wanted this film to atone for the short shrift given to the Dark Phoenix story in X-Men - the Last Stand, but it falls very short indeed. Whilst First Class and Days Of Future Past offered relatively real characterisation and depth, both Apocalypse and now this film almost feel like featherweight characters grinding through the mechanics of the story, with a lot of on-screen bluster amounting to seemingly very little, with Dark Phoenix ironically feeling like a padded out version of the story from The Last Stand, rather than the epic emotionally transformative comic book story. Just as we have started to see an evolution in superhero movies, Dark Phoenix seems stuck on delivering kiddie-friendly entertainment rather than the more adult-orientated approach that the source material perhaps might merit.
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