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Download x men dark phonix movie6/2/2023 Sophie Turner plays the three shades of Grey that Jean’s given here - scared, sobbing, and seething - as best she can, but the script blazes through her tragic arc, never quite finding a personality for her in order to let an audience truly connect with Jean on an emotional level. ![]() ![]() The Phoenix force itself is left unexplored and hazily defined, essentially the outer space equivalent of a killer shark on the prowl or a demon looking for a soul to possess. While that may be more comics accurate than what happened in The Last Stand and what was hinted at in Apocalypse, her newfound godlike powers serve as merely a McGuffin for the villains to pursue and an excuse for the heroes to splinter apart in melodramatic fashion. The events of Apocalypse (which fell flatter for me than it did for IGN’s reviewer, Daniel Krupa) that seemed to trigger the awakening of her Phoenix powers are simply ignored here in favor of a celestial force that inhabits her during a rescue mission in space. ![]() ![]() Ostensibly Jean Grey’s movie, Dark Phoenix struggles to give Jean any true personality or identity outside of her super powers.
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