(James McAvoy, because, you know, it's then), though that "traumatized" aspect returns to haunt the story as Jean grows into a woman A traumatized young Jean has been placed under the mentorship of Charles Xavier Of the villains in the various X-Men films? Well, that was then (as in "pick your timeline") and this is now, or at least another then, andįirmly ensconced in hero territory as this story gets underway. Hey, remember when the X-Men were mutants, feared by the general populace and hated by those shadowy governmental types who are often Dark Phoenix would seem to once again be a kind of odd comboīoth of those approaches, but Simon Kinberg, who had a previous "at bat" with Jean as screenwriter for X-Men: The Last Stand ,ĭoesn't seem to know quite how to shape, or perhaps more accurately stated, reshape, this material as either writer or director. Timelines, or seeking to reinvent a character with an origin story. Maybe even totemic, characters tend to go one of the two routes: breaking with "tradition" and crafting those aforementioned pesky alternate It's been kind of interesting over the past many years seeing how adapters attempting to fashion films out of longstanding and in many cases Properties, but like many an odd casserole, only certain ingredients register while the overall taste is a bit muddled. All of this adds up to a rather odd combo platter of ideas and snippets culled from other X- Men Grey (played in this installment by Sophie Turner of Game of Thrones, who also briefly portrayed the character in X-Men: Apocalypse) is that in at least one timeline previously explored her story doesn't What's kind of odd about this particular alternate timeline is that it was at least delved intoĬompletely explored in X-Men: The Last Stand, aįilm which was not exactly met with the same general critical rapture as its two predecessors. Storyline is an almost laughable proposition. ![]() Some renown), since one of the things that has frequently attended Marvel cinematic (and, frankly, other) science fiction adaptations is the wholeĬonceit of an alternate timeline, where death is an illusion, supposed epochal events seemingly a passing fancy, and any sense of one coherent ![]() That "finality" may in fact be a chimera (to reference another mythological beast Ironies that Dark Phoenix perhaps brings an incontrovertible end to the long running if sometimes problematic X-Men franchise,Īnd in this case it's an end with no obvious resurrection in sight. Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, September 21, 2019Ī phoenix rising from the ashes is one of the more redolent images from mythology and/or Mankind's collective unconscious, but it's just one of
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