A big flop despite a strong cast and very good story. The treatment isn't good though - it's got some very mediocre dialogue, so much of it is on the nose and repetitive. More crucially it misses big moments - I'm mean they're all there in theory but you don't feel anything when Jennifer Lawrence dies, or the relationship between Sophie Turner and Tye Sheridan (in his defence he can't act with his eyes) or the bond between Turner and James McAvoy, or between Nic Hoult and Jennifer Lawrence, Turner and Jessica Chastain, or the death of Turner. McAvoy and Michael Fassbender have some moments.
Some good bits - the final fight on the train is well done, Fassbender s in good form. But the resst is all curiously flat - it's weird the story s so solid, it should work, but it doesn't. It just feels silly, no camraderie amongst the X Men. Everyone talks about how they care about each other but you never believe it. It feels like a flat episode of a TV series with a decent budget - but the visuals are okay rather than amazing.
You wonder why they made it. Logan I get there was a point - it was the last act of a popular charcter. Is Phoenix popular? If that's the case make it all about her - she disappears from too much of the action and spends a lot of the final battle asleep. Logan was also a gritty version - that wouldn't have worked here but it could have been say a girl's fairytale.
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