X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)

Jean Grey begins to develop incredible powers that corrupt and turn her into a Dark Phoenix, causing the X-Men to decide if her life is worth more than all of humanity.

Director:

Simon Kinberg

Writer:

Simon Kinberg

Stars:

James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence

11 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
James McAvoy	...	Professor Charles Xavier
Michael Fassbender	...	Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
Jennifer Lawrence	...	Raven / Mystique
Nicholas Hoult	...	Hank McCoy / Beast
Sophie Turner	...	Jean Grey / Phoenix
Tye Sheridan	...	Scott Summers / Cyclops
Alexandra Shipp	...	Ororo Munroe / Storm
Evan Peters	...	Peter Maximoff / Quicksilver
Kodi Smit-McPhee	...	Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
Jessica Chastain	...	Vuk
Scott Shepherd	...	John Grey
Ato Essandoh	...	Jones
Brian d'Arcy James	...	President of the United States
Halston Sage	...	Dazzler
Lamar Johnson	...	Match

Storyline

The X-Men. Protectors of peace. Jean Grey is one of the most beloved X-Men. But when a mission goes wrong, Jean is exposed to a dark and ancient power. This power has destroyed everything it comes in contact with, until her. Now that this power is becoming unstable, she releases it with destruction and anger. Now that this foreign power is consuming her, and the world is threatened, the X-Men have to face an important truth: they must save either the world, or their friend who threatens it.

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Plot Keywords:

1990s | year 1975 | 1970s | year 1992 | pistol | 

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Taglines:

A Phoenix will rise. The X-Men will fall.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action including some gunplay, disturbing images, and brief strong language

Details

Official Sites:

Marvel [United States] Official Site

Country:

USA Canada

Language:

English French

Release Date:

7 June 2019 (USA)

Also Known As:

X-Men: Dark Phoenix

Filming Locations:

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$200,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$32,828,348, 9 June 2019

Gross USA:

$65,845,974

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$252,442,974

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox, Bad Hat Harry Productions, Donners' Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

113 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Auro 11.1 Dolby Atmos Dolby Surround 7.1 DTS (DTS: X)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Reprising her role as Mystique for this film, marks the second time that Jennifer Lawrence has played a character for the fourth time in a franchise. She played Katniss Everdeen four times in The Hunger Games series as well.

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Goofs

When Jean is reading Charles' mind in New York, in the flashback, Charles can be seen driving an eight-year-old Jean to the school, but it was established that he was in a wheelchair then and had no control over his legs, and therefore couldn't drive. But X-Men: Days of Future Past revealed that he sometimes uses a drug to regain control of his legs (at the temporary expense of his powers), so it's possible he took minimal enough of a dose to be able to drive the car.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Jean Grey: Who are we? Are we simply what others want us to be? Are destined to a fate beyond our control? Or can we evolve? Become... something more?

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Crazy Credits

Same to previous X-Men films, when the 20th Century Fox logo fades away, the X in the logo stays for a second longer before it also fades away.

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Connections

Referenced in Lights Out with David Spade: Episode #1.43 (2019)

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Soundtracks

Ain't That Peculiar
Written by Bobby Rogers (as Robert Rogers), Smokey Robinson (as William "Smokey" Robinson), Marvin Tarplin and Warren Moore
Performed by Marvin Gaye
Courtesy of Motown Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

User Reviews

Why was this even made?

For the love of all things unholy, why was this movie even made? I feel like the X-MEN franchise is shooting their own foot with every single release. Dark Phoenix was painful to watch; the story itself didn't give us a reason to watch the damn thing. And by that I mean the film does absolutely nothing for the franchise. They probably could've done better if they just skipped this movie completely. There is no connection to X-MEN apocalypse at all and quite frankly I feel like this movie negates the entire events of X-MEN apocalypse. This is the second go at telling the story of the Jean Grey-Phoenix angle and I think this probably was worse than the first one; at least the first one had Wolverine in it. Sophie Turner is a great actress and I certainly am not discounting her talent for acting but for me she just isn't Jean Grey. She had no connection to the character and it didn't help that it was weird listening to her. I think that was because she was trying to hide her accent. Also what is up with her makeup? She's destroying houses, killing people; she literally has blood on her shirt but still has perfect hair and makeup. Probably the best thing about the film was that one Nightcrawler scene; there's this one scene where Nightcrawler is pissed off and it looked bad-ass. All in all I think this was one of the more awful X-MEN movies. You really don't care about the story, characters are forgettable and uninspiring, arcs are just all over the place and again there is nothing to this film.