![]() At least, Hans Zimmer provided the score, and it's paced rather quickly after all of that test screening, re-writing and re-shooting that has delayed the release for several months. The camerawork, CGI and other effects are rather standard superhero movie fare from a first time director, but one who has been producing them for a while now. In prior X-Men movies, the politics between regular humans and mutants was one of its most interesting parts-rich in allusions to real racial, gender and other forms of discrimination-but not so here. The non-mutant people of Earth are here again, too, but their attitudes towards mutants are as erratic and sudden as Grey's mood swings and mostly occupy the background to the super-powered action. Once again, Professor X squares off against an antagonist over her soul-except, this time, that includes some underdeveloped and generic aliens (led by what's-her-name devil on Jean's shoulder as portrayed by a wasted Jessica Chastain) in addition to a briefer confrontation this time around with Magneto. "My emotions make me strong," she contends, failing to mention that it makes her strong at killing and otherwise harming people on a whim. Once again, Jean Grey comes in contact with some cosmic steroids that make her overly powerful and extremely unstable. "Dark Phoenix" is a listless conclusion to Fox's X-Men movie series that manages to fail to live up to even the previously-much-panned adaptation of The Dark Phoenix Saga comic-book arc, "X-Men: The Last Stand" (2006). Applauses, simon k., for destroying such an wonderful franchise!. the dialogue was stuttered (for all of them) - the camera angles with lots of close-ups tried to give the illusion of emotional weight, but failed miserably - the whole movie felt like a looooong bad dream, or like the spawn of someone who messed up his brain with some w**d and then got into the director's and writer's chair. The acting was utterly bad (the good actors had no script to act with, Sophie Turner had no talent to act with) - the music was utterly nonsensical (Hans dear, stop falling asleep on the keyboard while composing), the same score stretched continuously for half a movie, then a slightly different score playing continuously for the other half. and somehow this "director" has managed to do so. is reduced to a sad (not even old!) man who wastes his time as a retired old man and Magneto comes to him to sweeten his days of exile by treating him to a final game of chess?!?!?!?! To destroy the very core of X-Men is to destroy the X-Men. but here, not only does he not act at all, but - Dear God Almighty!!! - he is turned into the bad guy (because that's the trend in some foggy minds of Hollywood these days), he is accused by his students, whom he taught, formed their characters and helped to grow into compassionate beings.and he is deprived of his School?!?!?! at the end of the movie the "Xavier School for gifted youngsters" changes name to Jean Grey School?!?!?! Seriously?!?! (what did she do to deserve such an honor?) and the fundament, the basis, the Heart, the Mind, the One who formed and gathered them all together. The acting is clearly dull from the very first scenes - McAvoy was a fantastic actor in Days of Future Past (and also in First Class), nicely paired with the huge talents of Hugh Jackman and Fassbender. and yet this director somehow managed to. It's difficult to destroy the best franchise from the Marvel Universe.
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