The X-men films have been mixed at best in terms of quality, but I’ve been entertained watching them, I hoped it would end on a high and whilst I’ll get to New Mutants at a later date, let’s look at the final main-line X-men film, Dark Phoenix.
So, Brett Ratner and Brian Singer have both been implicated as perpetrators of sexual assault. Bet that makes looking back on the X-men fun. Personally, I would’ve brought back Matthew Vaughn but for whatever reason, they decided to elevate Simon Kinberg to director. He has plenty of experience with the X-men, having been involved with writing Days of Future Past and Apocalypse, as well as The Last Stand and Fant4stic, those triumphs of cinema.
Still, Kinberg acknowledges that studio interference with
The Last Stand led to the story not being a good retelling of the Phoenix saga,
and wanted to give it a try with more creative freedom. And then the studio got
involved again, stopping his initial plan for a 2-part movie after the
relatively underwhelming performance of Apocalypse.
The entire ending was reshot as the studio felt it was too
similar to Captain Marvel. Speaking of which the villains had to be changed
because of Captain Marvel too, creative freedom ladies and gentlemen.
So does this movie deliver… no, it doesn’t… let’s dig in and
see why not.
