An average movie

Since this movie had been a huge critical and commercial flop, I wasn’t expecting much but since it was available on Disney+, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, to be honest, maybe because I had such low expectation, but I didn’t think it was so bad after all. However, it doesn’t mean that it was really good either though. Indeed, following the disappointing ‘Apocalypse’, I thought they would go for a reboot in a couple of years since most of the actors involved seemed to be pretty much done with this franchise so I was rather surprised that they were coming up  with another sequel. At least, there was then the hope that they might end up on a higher note. Unfortunately, for some reason, they made the bewildering choice of telling once again the story of Jean Grey becoming the Dark Phoenix. Sure, it is apparently a classic story in the comic-books but it had already been done with ‘X-Men: The Last Stand’ so the whole endeavour felt rather misguided and completely unnecessary. Anyway, as a result, this last instalment turned out to be the weakest of the bunch. It's too bad because it was rather promising that they killed off Raven fairly early in the movie but this tragic event was rather poorly handled and felt therefore really anticlimactic. Another issue was Jessica Chastain’s character who was such a bland and generic bad guy and, in my opinion, this character could have been actually easily removed. In fact, one of the few interesting things in this movie was the fact that, while he meant well, Charles Xavier probably f*cked up Jean Grey and maybe some other young mutants with his approach and I think it was a huge missed opportunity when they did not focus on this. Indeed, the fact that a seemingly good man could loose his way and mess up the people he was supposed to help in the first place sounded quite fascinating but, unfortunately, this movie obviously preferred instead to follow the most pedestrian path available. Finally, the last thing that bothered me with this movie was the fact that there were just way too many mutants involved. Seriously, for example, was it really necessary to bring Magneto in this tale? Eventually, it shows how difficult it is to have so many super-heroes in one movie and, except for the MCU, it seems that nobody else is able to actually pull it off. Anyway, to conclude, I was probably generous with my rating here, I guess it was still watchable though, but there is no doubt that it was one of the most useless and misguided sequels ever made.