Dark Phoenix is the second attempt to bring the famous “Dark Phoenix Saga” storyline to the big screen, and both times, writer Simon Kinberg, who now directs this latest adaptation in addition to serving as screenwriter, seems to be at a loss with how to do the story justice. In X-Men: The Last Stand, a major problem was trying to do both Dark Phoenix and an adaptation of the Astonishing X-Men storyline “The Cure”, and neither one really gets the attention it deserves. This time around, the main problem is that we simply don’t know the main …
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