Dark Phoenix

Turner delivers a solid performance as a young woman coming to grips with an unknown force, and James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender maintain the frenemy bond we've grown to love.

The movie's weaknesses make more glaring the movie's hollowness where the storyline's feminism once was.

A stupendously dull series-ender without a shred of wit, narrative thrust or genuine emotional force.

It didn't have to end this way...It didn't have to end with so little emotion, so little meaning - with a sad little speech about evolving, for Phoenix's sake.

If future filmmakers can learn these lessons from the travesty of "Dark Phoenix," it won't have been a total waste.

The final battle takes place aboard a moving train that feels like it's headed nowhere. At this point, it's a perfect metaphor for the "X-Men" series.

It's a dull superhero movie out of the bunch, a rushed product that never escapes the bland. [Full review in Spanish]

All in all, the franchise has petered out with a film that is neither its best nor worst entry.

It's too much story to tell in one chapter while also trying to wrap up two decades worth of material. The Phoenix storyline should have been built over the past few installments, rather than cramming it all here at the end.

Dark Phoenix shows a franchise that has run out of gas.