10 Reasons Why Dark Phoenix Is One Of The Greatest WORST Comic Book Movies Ever
2. The Train Sequence
Much like an actual train, the third act of this film comes crashing into the narrative out of literally nowhere and feels like it's from an entirely different film.
Up until the final thirty minutes, to call the military's involvement in the film even a C-level subplot would be generous, so seeing them come violently crashing into the A-story and suddenly taking over the whole thing is more than a little at odds with the rest of the film.
It also just has completely different storytelling priorities than the rest of the film, with Jean essentially being written out of the sequence. There's all sorts of goofy stuff, like all of Jessica Chastain's minions looking like extras they just picked up from the GAP clothing store, Nightcrawler suddenly and viciously becoming a murderer with a knife (?), and Magneto making sure to only use his full power on the no-name bad guys and then conveniently forget all about them when he faces off against Chastain.