X-Men: Dark Phoenix

X-Men: Dark Phoenix is a rather anticlimactic ending to the series with the characters that we have known and loved for so long.

Dark Phoenix takes place along the same timeline as X-Men: Apocalypse (I won't give any further details in case you haven't watched X-Men: Days of Future Past), but has much less action. The plot is along the same lines, but is a lot weaker.

Dark Phoenix sees James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan and the rest reprise their roles from the previous films. You can't help but miss Hugh Jackman as Wolverine (Apocalypse at least had a special appearance by him) though.

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Director Simon Kinberg is no stranger to the X-Men series, having been writer and producer for Days of Future Past and Apocalypse, among others. Dark Phoenix, his directorial debut, however, does not live up to them. The storyline is kind of predictable and akin to previous X-Men movies. The action scenes are fine though and similar to its predecessors.

In my opinion, you should watch Dark Phoenix to see the main characters (Professor X, Magneto, Raven, Beast, etc.) in action one last time; I personally enjoyed it. For those who are more critical of films, I can't give any other compelling reason to watch it.

I feel as though Days of Future Past would've been the perfect (happy) ending to the series (with Logan being the decisive conclusion), and both Apocalypse (despite it being a good movie) and Dark Phoenix are unnecessarily stretching it.

Regardless, it is now officially the end of an era and I can say unequivocally that the original X-Men are going to be missed very, very much...

(The next movie The New Mutants is a complete reboot that is set to release in April 2020 in the US)

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