First things first: as the second attempt to adapt one of the X-Men’s most iconic story arcs - the Dark Phoenix Saga, X-Men: Dark Phoenix actually fares much, much better compared to the last try – the 2006 franchise-killing X-Men: The Last Stand.
Director Simon Kinberg actually handles the story with much more reverence than The Last Stand’s Brett Ratner did, and at least gives us a moderately satisfying version of the classic comic book story on screen,
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