X-Men Dark Phoenix

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1/10. Desperately lame superhero prequel film.

Opening scene is of a young girl in the back seat of her parent's car as they drive along a very quiet tree-lined rural backroad with gentle curves on a sunny day, which as all film-goers know, are extremely dangerous roads, particularly for parents. The film also reminds us later on that helicopter pilot is not a job with long-term survival prospects.

I'll start with the good bits about this film.
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Now onto the bad bits. It's incredibly lazily written and directed and it's just plain dull. Here's the plot outline - tragedy, off to X-men school, big action sequence, X-men argue, tragedy, X-men arguments, big action sequence, arguments, big action sequence, really really big action sequence, pathetic bit of moralising at the end - something, something about evolving. The cast seem to be putting in the same effort as the writers, but you can't really blame them. Jennifer Lawrence is in it, presumably due to a contract she signed before she got really famous.