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Dark Phoenix - Movie Review

History

The X-Men franchise has been licensed under 20th Century Fox and has not been under the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Dark Phoenix is the last movie produced before the merger with Disney who now have all but the Spiderman franchise currently under Sony. This means that we may see a nearly complete MCU with nearly all licensed characters under one company. Many rich stories could be told staying closer to the source material. Secret Wars might now be an option. The House of M might be another. We will have to wait and see what Disney has in store for us in the years to come. Rumor has it that Deadpool and Venom will remain outside of the MCU.

Days of Future past was an excellent comic that was adapted with the available licensed characters. The movie was good even though it did go far off the original story. With Hugh Jackman hanging up his claws after Logan, one wondered what an X-Men movie would be like without at least a cameo form our favorite mutant. I do not consider this a spoiler unless you were like me and just hoping it was not true. I am sorry to disappoint.

Movie Review

Unlike Days of Future past, the source material allowed the movie to stay true to the original source material. Alas, the movie kept very little to the source material. Does that make it a bad movie. Days of Future Past in my opinion was fairly well done even though it did not even come close the source material. In this case, the movie had no choice but to go its own direction. The past six X-Men movies made it impossible to remain true to the story.

My mistake may have been watching Game of Thrones. In my opinion, Sophie Turner is not the best actress to hold a movie together. She comes off kinda whiny character in many of her roles. Not someone who you want to be the main plot in a movie. She has the look of Jean Grey but not quite the likability as the character she plays. You will hear some say the movie totally disregards Days of Future Past movie. I will give you a little hit/spoiler. Watch the top left of the screen during the last scene of the movie.

I found much I did like about the movie. Most notably would be most of the other cast and where their characters where and what they were doing. This made the movie acceptable to watch. I am ranking this possibly my least favorite X-Men movie but still worth at least one watch.

Rating

I would give this between a SD and HD rating. I will definitely be looking for a bargain HD digital copy when it comes out. I will update you on my final purchase. Yes, I am a completist on almost all my movie series.

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