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Professor Charles Xavier
Erik Lehnsherr, Magneto
Raven, Mystique
Hank McCoy, Beast
Jean Grey, Phoenix
Scott Summers, Cyclops
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Critic Reviews for Dark Phoenix
All Critics (373) | Top Critics (70) | Fresh (83) | Rotten (290)
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The spectacle is entertaining, up to a point, but even the digital wizardry wears thin, and Dark Phoenix turns into a standard-brand miasma of explosions, collisions and swirling force fields.
November 11, 2020 | Full Review… -
Turner delivers a solid performance as a young woman coming to grips with an unknown force, and James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender maintain the frenemy bond we've grown to love.
February 19, 2020 | Full Review… -
A middlin' X-men effort that cheats the saga of its past, present and future, messing with the story-line in unacceptable ways. Plus, it looks big and cheap - but mostly cheap.
July 6, 2019 | Rating: 2 | Full Review… -
Outgunned on the action front by box-office rivals and too nervous to tell a more intimate story, Dark Phoenix leaves the franchise running on empty.
June 20, 2019 | Full Review… -
It's as if the writer-director [Simon Kinberg] is using a superhero movie to rediscover the roots of soap opera. His emphasis on everything Young about the franchise swamps everything that's Adult.
June 17, 2019 | Full Review… -
It felt terribly, terribly scrappy.
June 15, 2019 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Dark Phoenix
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Aug 03, 2020An ambitious undertaking, all these storylines converging, all these characters elbowing for screen time, proves too unwieldy to manage at the end of the day for this work. Nonetheless a superhero movie whose subject is one too few in the genre tangle with, i.e., how to come to grips living with more power than anyone around you, especially if those around you have more power than anyone else. It's not as bad as others make it out to be to be and still is a worthwhile pass of time, only lacking the oomph people come to expect from the genre.Kevin M. W Super Reviewer
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Sep 25, 2019With the exception of some well staged action sequences, the movie has almost nothing to offer and the excessively dour tone guarantees that fun will be had by absolutely no one.Alec B Super Reviewer
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Sep 18, 2019The X-Men franchise comes to an end with Dark Phoenix, a thrilling sci-fi adventure. During a mission to rescue the crew of a space shuttle Jean Grey absorbs a strange energy cloud that causes her to lose control of her powers and become a danger to those around her; meanwhile an alien race called the D'Bari tracks the energy to Earth and attempts extract it from Jean. Writer/director Simon Kinberg does some interesting things with the characters, but breaks from the established series continuity (which is rather irritating). Also, the plot is rushed and doesn't spend any time explaining who the aliens are. And Jessica Chastain is criminally underused. Still, the special effects are especially well-done, and the fight scenes are exciting and action-packed. While it has some problems, Dark Phoenix is an entertaining film that unfortunately brings an end to the Fox chapter of this franchise.Dann M Super Reviewer
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Sep 10, 2019I don't know if Dark Phoenix is the worst entry in the X-Men franchise. I feel like I remember being much more angry walking out of Last Stand than this one. Dark Phoenix didn't really make me "angry"... It didn't make me feel anything I guess. But there was just nothing I liked about this. Like, Apocalypse was a bad movie, absolutely, but I really enjoyed that bit in the middle where the young X-Men got to the shopping centre together. That elevated it for me, even if it didn't stop it being a bad movie. Dark Phoenix has no such moment. Nothing I liked.Gimly M Super Reviewer
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