Dark Phoenix Early Reviews are Disastrous

Dark Phoenix Early Reviews are Disastrous

Dark Phoenix has been mired with production problems from the very beginning. With Simon Kinberg, first time director, deciding to adapt the famed comic book story that was done over ten years ago in X-Men: The Last Stand that turned out terribly. There were reports as well that Kinberg decided to change the entirety of the third act because of similarities to another comic book movie. 

But now, official reviews have come in for the film, and they are a long way from spectacular. Many say that this isn't the worst X-Men film, but it's far from the best. Check out some comments from critics below:

Entertainment Weekly

"Still for what is being called a final installment, it all tends to feel both anticlimactic and a little grim in the end."

Variety

"Yet Dark Phoenix took me by surprise. Simon Kinberg, who wrote and directed it (he was the co-screenwriter of The Last Stand - this is his first time helming a feature). Is a more sensual and intuitive filmmaker than Brett Ratner. He doesn't pad out a generic story with the rollicking eye candy of mutant effects. He uses effects to tell the story."

The Hollywood Reporter

"After 12 installments spread out over two decades, the X-Men franchise stumbles toward the close in Dark Phoenix. Played at an unmodulated level of subdued excitement that never quickens the pulse, longtime series producer Simon Kinberg's directorial debut lacks the exclamation point fans have justifiably been hoping for..."

The Wrap

“The most impressive thing about Simon Kinberg’s Dark Phoenix, the 12th movie in 20th Century Fox’s wildly inconsistent X-Men superhero franchise, is that it’s not the worst one."

IndieWire

“Dark Phoenix isn’t the first event-free event movie of the mega-franchise era, but this one is different — it’s a perfect storm of pointlessness. Not only does the movie fumble the baton pass between generations and fail to advance the series’ overarching story in any meaningful way, it also hardly seems to try."

ScreenCrush

“It’s very hard to tell this story in a satisfying way in this little amount of time. Multiple characters undergo life-altering changes of perspective — flipping from good to evil, sympathetic to monstrous — in a matter of seconds."

Dark Phoenix hits theaters on Friday, June 7th, 2019.