X-Men Dark Phoenix Review: 4 Ups & 6 Downs

3. There's No Emotional Impact

Despite adapting one of the most beloved X-Men comic arcs to date, Dark Phoenix is curiously lacking in emotion and basic feeling, even more so than Brett Ratner's much-detested prior adaptation, X-Men: The Last Stand.

Jean Grey being consumed by the Phoenix Force feels rushed, railroading the character through a wonky arc, including a totally half-assed subplot related to her past.

Far worse than this, however, is the movie's big character death. No spoilers here - though no points for guessing who it is, either - but the scene is clearly supposed to be a devastating marquee moment for the audience, yet again feels rushed through, generic and above all else totally predictable.

Unintended laughter is the more probable emotion throughout the film, and Dark Phoenix is ultimately the complete opposite of Logan, which invested the audience fully in its characters for years before paying them off appropriately.

Here, nobody cares about Jean Grey's struggle, nor many of the other new characters introduced in recent films.