So, you've totally expectedly brought Jean Grey back from the dead as the Dark Phoenix thanks to the long repressed malignant force of her own brain and you need to portray that she's rather a lot more twisted and a lot less sympathetic than audiences remember. Do you go subtle, giving the characters around her the chance to mistake this new being for their much-missed loved on, incorporating new elements into a familiar design that hint that all is not as it seems or all that it was? Well, if you're Brett Ratner and the X-Men: The Last Stand team then you'd have trouble even spelling out the word subtle. Those silent letters can be tricky I guess. Instead, Ratner's Dark Phoenix showed up looking malnourished and seemingly in dire need of a new anti-ageing moisturiser. The power of the Dark Phoenix is meant to be terrifying enough without making Famke Janssen look like a bridal model at an alternative wedding show but that's all we really got alongside some intense staring.
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