Rent X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)
2.9 of 5 from 769 ratings
1h 49min
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- Synopsis:
- During a rescue mission in space, Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) is transformed into the infinitely powerful and dangerous 'Dark Phoenix'. As Jean spirals out of control, the X-Men must unite to face their most devastating enemy yet - one of their own.
- Actors:
- James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Evan Peters, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jessica Chastain, Scott Shepherd, Ato Essandoh, Brian d'Arcy James, Halston Sage, Lamar Johnson, Summer Fontana, Hannah Emily Anderson, Josh McLaglen, Todd Hallowell, Julianne Jain
- Directors:
- Simon Kinberg
- Producers:
- Todd Hallowell, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Lauren Shuler Donner
- Writers:
- Simon Kinberg, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Dave Cockrum
- Aka:
- Dark Phoenix
- Studio:
- 20th Century Fox
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 07/10/2019
- Run Time:
- 109 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description Dolby Digital 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.39:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Rise of the Phoenix: The Making of Dark Phoenix (5-Part Documentary)
- Audio Commentary by Simon Kinberg and Hutch Parker
- Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Simon Kinberg and Hutch Parker
- How to Fly Your Jet to Space with Beast
- Theatrical Trailers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 07/10/2019
- Run Time:
- 109 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description Dolby Digital 5.1, English Dolby Atmos
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.39:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio Commentary by Simon Kinberg and Hutch Parker
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Reviews (10) of X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Just about watchable - X-Men: Dark Phoenix review by Alphaville
Another ho-hum instalment in the franchise. It’s a competent re-working of the usual hokum, long on cgi and short on anything that will make you care two hoots about superheroes and supervillains who fight each other yet again. Phoenix can fly and only has to raise a palm in someone’s direction to send them flying too, so nothing new here.
The plot retreads the standard story arc so expect the usual superhero soul searching and climactic bash. Bland Sophie Tucker isn’t up to investing her lead character with any charisma and there’s even a female baddie called Vuk (make up your own jokes). Any plus points? Hans Zimmer’s orchestral score is less annoying than usual.
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Not great but not catastrophic - X-Men: Dark Phoenix review by Other Worlds
I have to admit , looking at the acting talent on display at this stage of the franchise things do seem to have thinned out more than a bit since the start of the series. The cast tries hard , but they aren't particularly helped by the script and the direction makes the whole movie feel like we've been here and done that.
Its not quite as bad as some say , not a ringing endorsement admittedly, and if you are a Marvel die-hard you should certainly be able to power through to the end.
It all feels very, very tired however and if this is not the end of the X-Men story arc I truly fear what might happen next.
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Awful - X-Men: Dark Phoenix review by MB
The first two X-Men prequel films were very good the third a bit of a let down and it all ended with this terrible film !
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Critic review
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (aka Dark Phoenix) review by Mark McPherson - Cinema Paradiso
And so we finally come full circle with the X-Men prequel series. One would think that 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse would have brought things to a close as the film not only ended with the X-Men now in their matching suits and charging into the 1990s but also for the minor jab of The Last Stand being a lackluster third film to end on. Well, here we are again with Dark Phoenix, treading on a familiar and rocky ground last seen in The Last Stand.
The similar story involves the mutant Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) trying to stabilize her destructive psychic powers. Thanks to Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) taking her into his school at such a young age, she has learned through much training to control her abilities. By the time she reaches the 1990s where she has become an essential part of the X-Men team, whose older members are looking rather youthful after four decades. In fact, she’s become so powerful and indispensable that the shape-shifting mutant Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) thinks Xavier hasn’t been very fair to her, berating him that the team should be called X-Women with how much the female mutants have been proving themselves.
Raven is right in both aspects. For one, Jean took a direct blast from an alien energy force that was absorbed into her body, making her all the more powerful. For two, Charles is hiding a dark secret that deeply damages Jean’s sense of being. All of this results in her going on an emotional rampage where she not only feels distant from mutant-kind but damages the fragile relationship between humans and mutants, once more lighting that old flame of persecution. Her actions also attract the attention of Magneto (Michael Fassbender) with enough pathos to get him back in the saddle of the helmet-wearing conflicted mutant once more because even after all these decades he’s still a predictable creature of revenge.
Oh, and we completely forgot to mention the aliens. Yes, there’s a secret alien invasion of beings that take over human bodies and seek the power that Jean’s body currently houses. They’re led by a gentle Jessica Chastain that hopes her quiet words can persuade Jean to come over to the dark side of using her powers for intergalactic purposes. Her words easily sway Jean but in a very artificial way. Because in order to fit all of this, along with the conflicting relationships of various X-Men, into a film that’s under two hours, there’s no room to simmer. Characters must outright state they feel betrayed, loved, intimidated, or fearful in a manner that lacks subtlety.
But what’s perhaps the most troubling is that Dark Phoenix never really embraces its feminist angle which receives the same blunt delivery. We should get something poignant out of this development, but it’s a PG-13 crowd-pleaser comic book movie and so the most we can hope for out of such a tale is some good action, which we do get from a daring space shuttle rescue to a chaotic battle on a torn-apart train with all mutants battling aliens. But is that all this has to be? Fox has proven that genre-based comic book movies like Logan can not only be effective but also profitable. Why not embrace the obvious Carrie style horror this film so desperately wants to be? Why rob the film of this brilliance so that Nightcrawler can use his tail to snap some necks?
Despite some pleasing action, Dark Phoenix fizzles out on everything. Its characters are given surface-level motivations, the female angle coming off like a forced PSA, and the emotional moments coming off more like melodrama. This is less of a goodbye to this prequel saga and more of a good riddance.