10 Reasons Why Dark Phoenix Is One Of The Greatest WORST Comic Book Movies Ever

9. The Complete And Total Lack Of Plot

Dark Phoenix
20th Century Fox

The film has no plot, simply put.

Obviously, this thing went through a ton of reshoots and reworkings from the get-go and apparently, somewhere along the way, Kinberg and co. just decided it was better to not have anything resembling a narrative at all. The space mission happens, Jean gets Phoenix powers (I mean, she used them already in Apocalypse so I guess technically she's getting them again? It's not worth even attempting to get into), Jessica Chastain and her vanilla white people villains all come to Earth, and then... everyone just kind of wanders around, twiddling their thumbs and waiting for something to happen.

Jean goes to her childhood home where some cops show up, she goes to see Magneto on his private island, and then she hooks up with Jessica Chastain and decides to listen to her mumbo jumbo for twenty minutes. Also, somewhere in the midst of all that, Beast decides to go see Magneto and team up with him because he's decided somehow that Magneto must be the only person who can find Jean?

The long and short of it is nothing in the narrative or any of the choices any of these characters make have anything resembling believable motivations. It's just two hours of characters randomly crashing into one another and having painfully written spouts of dialogue.

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