Dark Phoenix

    Dark Phoenix
    2019

    Synopsis

    The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean is nearly killed when she's hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. The X-Men must now band together to save her soul and battle aliens that want to use Grey's new abilities to rule the galaxy.

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    Cast

    • Sophie TurnerJean Grey / Dark Phoenix
    • James McAvoyCharles Xavier / Professor X
    • Nicholas HoultHank McCoy / Beast
    • Tye SheridanScott Summers / Cyclops
    • Michael FassbenderErik Lensherr / Magneto
    • Alexandra ShippOroro Munroe / Storm
    • Evan PetersPeter Maximoff / Quicksilver
    • Jessica ChastainVuk
    • Kodi Smit-McPheeKurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
    • Jennifer LawrenceRaven Darkholme / Mystique

    Recommendations

    • 75

      Entertainment Weekly

      For what is being called a final installment, it all tends to feel both anticlimactic and a little grim in the end.
    • 63

      IGN

      Dark Phoenix is ultimately yet another fumbled take on the classic saga from the Marvel Comics, albeit one without the side plots of The Last Stand. Add to it a jarringly uneven latter half and some underdeveloped cosmic villains, and Dark Phoenix is fortunate to have not fully ended the X-Men’s current big screen run on a completely down note.
    • 63

      New York Post

      Pretty far-fetched even for a franchise about rare genetic mutations that allow people to read minds and shoot lasers with their eyes. It’s not bad, just crazy.
    • 60

      Empire

      Better than Last Stand or Apocalypse but never hitting the heights of X2, Dark Phoenix thrives when its heroes are front and centre. If this is the end, it’s a solid rather than spectacular goodbye.
    • 50

      Movie Nation

      It’s just that the whole affair feels winded, an argument — Will humans finally accept the mutants among us? — that’s exhausted everybody concerned, with many involved somehow knowing that those “Days of Future Past” are returning.
    • 49

      TheWrap

      It’s just a disappointingly average superhero flick, with a familiar story, disinterested actors, some cool action sequences, and a whole lot of missed opportunities.
    • 42

      The Playlist

      Its atrocious, expository dialogue, cumbersome plot, whiplashing character motivations, unintentionally funny moments, and often corny costumes, ensures, Dark Phoenix will be remembered in the annals of mediocre movies (and for somehow utterly wasting Jessica Chastain, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, and James McAvoy in the same film).
    • 40

      ScreenCrush

      The whole movie hinges on Jean Grey, a character we hardly know (the Sophie Turner version was introduced in a minor role in X-Men: Apocalypse) and her relationships to a team of heroes we’ve hardly seen.

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