Dark Phoenix (2019) - Movie Review(+ spoiler)

in #realityhubs5 years ago (edited)

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What is the point of being the strongest creature in the world and still die eventually, even worse, die just shortly after you became all strong and mighty. It was truly a tragedy, for me, Jean died the moment she stepped into that ship. This is no other movie than the X-Men: Dark Phoenix. This movie is a Sci-Fi action packed tragedy and the saddest sequel of all the X-men movies made.

Mystique(Jennifer Lawrence) died in this movie, I have personal attachment with X-men, their characters made a huge part of my childhood fun, Wolverine(Hugh Jackman) used to be my favorite and I used to hate that Magneto(Michael Fassbender) was the strongest until I watched where Dark Phoenix almost squeezed him to death without stress in this movie. How will Mystique die! Totally unfair.

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So the Dark Phoenix is a sequel of X-men with a focus on the life of Jean Grey(Sophie Turner). The movie takes us into her life as a young child at about the age of 6 before she was discovered by Charles Xavier(James McAvoy) as a special child, a mutant, with exceptional abilities. She was trained and mentored by Charles Xavier himself and grew up along with Scott(Tye Sheridan ), Hank(Nicholas Hoult ), Mystique and Storm at the X-Men school. While they went on a mission to save a space craft led by humans in outer space, Jean was hit with some cosmic abnormality which intensified her abilities and made her the strongest entity on earth. The power made her loose control severally, hurting those she loved including killing Mystique.

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The power indeed was a curse as long as she couldn't control it. Fortunately for her there were aliens who also needed the power and came from space to get it, unfortunately they didnt care if she was dead or alive. It was an interesting show of battle of skill and special powers between the aliens and mutants who wanted to kill Jean Grey, who were protecting Jean Grey, and who were trying to destroy the aliens.

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Storm(Alexandra Shipp) was particularly on flick with her lightning power zapping it here and there, Night-crawler(Kodi Smit-McPhee) was also very useful at least he didnt get hurt, Hank the Beast did his thing all through, power lifting and flinging all his obstacles, and Magneto had the best show I mean, he's an iron bender, sweet power.

The movie isn't as captivating as the other X-men sequels, Wolverine's absence in this story kind of reduced the action, what is an X-men movie without a Wolverine? I still don't get the point of Mystiques death and the action in the entire movie is nothing compared to what super hero movies like Avengers are offering these days.

Hope you've enjoyed the review, here's the trailer for you to have peek.

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Nice review, the movie sounds very exciting. I haven’t seen it yet, but want to see it. Thanks

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