![]() ![]() The camerawork, CGI and other effects are rather standard superhero movie fare from a first time director, but one who has been producing them for a while now. In prior X-Men movies, the politics between regular humans and mutants was one of its most interesting parts-rich in allusions to real racial, gender and other forms of discrimination-but not so here. The non-mutant people of Earth are here again, too, but their attitudes towards mutants are as erratic and sudden as Grey's mood swings and mostly occupy the background to the super-powered action. ![]() ![]() Once again, Professor X squares off against an antagonist over her soul-except, this time, that includes some underdeveloped and generic aliens (led by what's-her-name devil on Jean's shoulder as portrayed by a wasted Jessica Chastain) in addition to a briefer confrontation this time around with Magneto. "My emotions make me strong," she contends, failing to mention that it makes her strong at killing and otherwise harming people on a whim. Once again, Jean Grey comes in contact with some cosmic steroids that make her overly powerful and extremely unstable. "Dark Phoenix" is a listless conclusion to Fox's X-Men movie series that manages to fail to live up to even the previously-much-panned adaptation of The Dark Phoenix Saga comic-book arc, "X-Men: The Last Stand" (2006).
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