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I’ll always be an X-Men fan since the 90s cartoon was my gateway to geekery, but Dark Phoenix shows that this franchise has made too many miscalculations to continue as it is. Even setting aside the messy continuity, why did these movies need to jump forward a decade with every installment? Why adapt “The Dark Phoenix Saga” if the character relationships haven’t been properly established? What makes an X-Men movie unique when the world now has The Avengers? These questions were never really answered, and so the current X-Men series closes not with triumph but with a shrug (I’m inclined to believe that the upcoming New Mutants, which doesn’t share any cast members with the X-Men saga proper, will get buried on Hulu or Disney+). When Marvel Studios inevitably reboots X-Men, a movie like Dark Phoenix will be a forgotten relic. The characters and their world deserve better, but we’ll have to wait until their next evolution.

-Matt Goldberg, Collider: D

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. While the MCU may prove better suited to give so many of these beloved mutant characters the rich dimension and care they deserve, the property itself deservedly needs a good long rest before the X-Men return to the screen.

-Jim Vejvoda, IGN: 6.3 "okay"

The point of a phoenix, dark or otherwise, is that it rises from the flames. But these are the flames in which this franchise has finally gone down.

-Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian: 2/5

Given an eight year head start on rival superhero franchise, the Avengers, but with ten fewer films under its belt, the X-Men series suffers from creative decisions which have resulted in a confused and contradictory patchwork of cast changes, multiple timelines and repetitive narratives. This twelfth X-Men yarn is a sombre and plodding retread of the series' 2006 third instalment, X-Men: The Last Stand, and feels at all times like a rehashed greatest hits package of uninspired action scenes.

-Chris Hunneysett, Mirror: 2/5

The 'X-Men' franchise wraps up — or does it? — with a functionally plotted sequel that attains a note of ominous majesty, thanks to Sophie Turner's presence as an X-Woman consumed by the awesomeness of her power.

-Owen Gleiberman, Variety

Sophie Turner shines but messy plot flames out.

-Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post: 2.5/4

It would be wonderful to report that “Dark Phoenix” was an impressive send-off to this long-running franchise (especially since the next film, “New Mutants,” isn’t coming out anytime soon). In a strange way, it might have been preferable if this was the most embarrassing film in the series, since at least then there’d be a reason to remember it. Instead 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.

-William Bibbiani, The Wrap

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). But there is a kernel of what it could have been, and in case you’re wondering it’s not quite the nadir of the series. Toying with ideas of identity and destiny that it telegraphs in spoon-feeding voiceover, “Dark Phoenix” wants to be about who we are and those who aren’t afforded that choice— positing that Jean Grey might be destined for greatness or fated to be a monster, but personal agency of who she truly is, has never been in her control. It’s admirable material on paper, but it’s also just layers of stuff that’s meaningless and empty. And so imagine a story about an arrogant movie that believes its psychologically complex, but ultimately can’t see itself for the shallow superhero movie it truly is.

-Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist: C-

TLDR

Basically, it sucks, and does a terrible job of adapting the Dark Phoenix storyline

其實都幾慘下，始終係一個差唔多延續咗廿年，同埋kickstart咗superhero movie嘅movie franchise，最後竟然搞成咁

Endgame 70M to go

tom仔瀨jake手掌

從來冇諗過要睇

自dofp之後睇樣都知垃圾

正解時間好寶貴，唔係要黎睇垃圾

自問xmen死忠#但我都唔想睇黑雞

其實另外套 new mutant 算唔算入 X men series 入邊架？

計但我d懷疑近排d reshoot係想將佢塞入mcu到

應該聽日睇 唯有希望唔好爛過天啟啦屌

聽朝早場 50蚊

真有意思

有冇人覺得舊靈鳥正好多

細個睇x-men3佢同狼叔一開波個幕

正常吓

X3殘左好多