I have to write about Dark Phoenix seen when I was left from blogging.
Dark Phoenix is a movie of X-Men series provided by 20th Century Fox. The series began with X-Men trilogy (X-Men, X-2, and the Last Stand), followed by the new trilogy (The First Class, Day of Future Past, and Apocalypse.) As well, Wolverine trilogy was released as a spin-off work.
Dark Phoenix was the last movie of X-Men movie by the 20th Fox because it is decided that members of X-Men will join to Marvel Cinematic Universe. Thus, this work should be a historic work.
However, the first impression of this movie for me was horrible.
First of all, the scenes are very cheap. The final battle was conducted in a locked space of a train. Even after breaking the door, the sky was so dark that I hardly saw the detail of each person's movement. Darken background is often used to save the budget since it does not cost so much.
The story also does not make sense. The core of this film is Jean's trauma that she unintentionally killed her mother with her uncontrollable power. Professor X sealed her memory to protect her from the trauma. But finally she remembered it, to make her furious.
Meanwhile, some aliens come to the earth to bring Phoenix force to restore their own planet. Phoenix force comes into Jean's body. The leader of the aliens tries to get her trust to make use of her Phoenix force.
Thus, there are two parallel themes described at the same time. Therefore, the audience have difficulty which do they concentrate on. As a result, Jean realizes Professor X's conscience all at sudden. And she realize the importance of her own emotion to defeat the aliens. These sequences are not persuasive at all.
Compared to The Last Stand, Dark Phoenix is far inferior, I sense.
By the way, I like the music in this film very much. I listen to the album frequantly.
My personal rating:2 (poor)
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