![]() ![]() The crew deserves an award for Jean's impressive makeup, which apparently isn't just waterproof but also explosion- and near-apocalypse-proof: There's not a moment when Turner doesn't look positively luminous. Fassbender and McAvoy, no longer the main characters, still play their key roles, but their interactions (until the end) are familiar and unoriginal. The action sequences are technically well-executed: a flurry of mutants fights first among themselves, then together against a common enemy. And some comic relief would have been welcome amid the grief and intensity of Jean's journey, but not even Quicksilver ( Evan Peters) gets more than a zinger or two. In other words, the X-Men who've made the previous First Class films watchable, funny, and clever aren't given enough screen time to shine. Writer/director/producer Simon Kinberg focuses on Jean's dark transformation, but that story comes at the expense of several characters who are limited to supporting/barely there roles. Turner is well-cast as Jean Grey, but she can't elevate this serviceable but unremarkable final X-Men film into the pantheon of memorable series endings. She then leaves the X-Men, tragically kills one of her friends, and ends up teaming up with the alien leader - who convinces her she should unleash her powers and destroy the world. As Jean grows more unpredictable and dangerous, she causes property damage, injures her friends, and discovers a secret that Professor X was hiding about her past. Meanwhile, the leader of a dying alien race arrives on Earth, takes over the body of an unlucky woman ( Jessica Chastain), and searches for the power residing within Jean. During the mission, Jean ( Sophie Turner) absorbs the cosmic power of a solar flare, with some life-changing side effects: She suddenly transforms into an ever-growing powerful being. ![]() Fast-forward to 1992, when Professor X, at the president's request, sends the X-Men to space to rescue imperiled astronauts. DARK PHOENIX starts in 1975, with a flashback to a young Jean Grey, whose telekinetic powers accidentally cause a tragic car crash that leaves her orphaned and handed into the care of Charles Xavier ( James McAvoy). ![]()
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