And it is telling that among the strongest things the MCU has going for it is the strength of its continuity. The model for a shared universe should be and is Kevin Feige’s Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). However, chief among these considerations should be the nature of the franchise’s continuity. There are many guesses as to how this happened. Dark Phoenix earned the all-time lowest opening day for an X-Men movie ever. It’s barely a superhero movie, and that’s what makes it great.But despite such a long build up, audiences met the film with a shrug. But X-Men movies are also at their best when they’re tackling real-world issues through metaphor, and no movie can surpass Logan in that project: The owner of the world’s brightest brain, Charles Xavier, begins to lose his mind in a terrifying parallel to Alzheimer’s Laura’s journey reflects the terror of an immigrant’s flight to safety and Logan, like an aging soldier, reckons psychologically with a life full of death. Most X-Men movie end with happy young mutants running across the grounds of Xavier’s school Logan ends, well, bittersweetly. Most X-Men movies are family affairs Logan is a violent, R-rated post-apocalyptic tragedy. Most X-Men movies are overcrowded Logan focuses on just a few mutants. In some ways, Logan totally diverges from the X-Men formula. But Logan is the best capital-F film on this list. Is it sacrilege to rank an apocalyptic Western above all three X-Men movies from the original trilogy? Probably. In the end, the movie simply does not justify its existence. And the film shies away from answering basic questions - why haven’t Michael Fassbender’s Magneto and James McAvoy’s Xavier aged between the ’60s-set First Class and this ’90s-set movie? - and more complex ones, like whether Charles Xavier messing with Jean’s brain was an act of care or one of misogynistic gaslighting. But the script leans lazily on the assumption that audiences will care about Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey, a mere supporting player in X-Men: Apocalypse, because of Famke Janssen’s portrayal of that character more than a decade ago. (More on that disaster below.) This version of the Dark Phoenix saga, in which Jean Grey struggles to control her immense power and kills some good guys in the process, is certainly more empowering to its central character.
Simon Kinberg, who wrote many of the X-Men movies, including Last Stand, offered Dark Phoenix as a corrective to that much-maligned third X-Men movie.
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