Dark Phoenix: 10 Ways It's The Worst X-Men Film Yet
A miserable send-off to one of the superhero genre's biggest franchises.
20th Century Fox's Dark Phoenix draws to a close two decade's worth of X-Men movies. Unfortunately, it's a film X-fans will struggle to find redeeming features in, as Simon Kinberg's film squanders its source material with a half-baked adaptation that fails to entertain even on the most basic level.
Dark Phoenix is bad, and almost certainly the worst X-Men film yet. It's even more unfortunate that, despite the film releasing to a general sense of apathy from X-Men fans - with the team sure to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the coming years - it still manages to find a way to disappoint; the franchise has bowed out in potentially the most unceremonious way it could have.
It's a huge shame, even if the series had started to lag behind Marvel Studios' efforts with the release of 2016's Apocalypse. For all the faults of Fox's X-Men films, they still managed to deliver some seminal moments in superhero fiction, with Days of Future Past and Logan both comfortably sitting at the top tier of comic book movies. Dark Phoenix, on the other hand, does anything but, and even manages to distinguish itself as a less entertaining film than some of the more miserly offerings in the franchise, such as X-Men Origins: Wolverine and 2006's The Last Stand.
The fourth entry in Fox's First Class series is messy, meandering, and likely even the worst X-Men film to date. There's no way it should've been this bad, and yet...
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