The movie is far too cluttered for its own good, and Jean is forced to compete for screen time against a dozen other characters with their own poorly-written storylines.Īfter multiple "X-Men" films with world-ending stakes, the series really could've benefitted from a quieter, more grounded movie where we got to watch the new teen characters get to know each other and fully come into their own as both heroes and young adults. "Apocalypse" at least puts a little more effort this time around into establishing Jean as a prominent character before her Dark Phoenix arc, but it doesn't succeed. So, it seems particularly weird for the next movie to introduce us to another version of Jean Gray as a teenager in the '80s, whose storyline is filled with contradictions from the original trilogy. The ending to "Days of Future Past" seemed to be setting up a return to the present-day timeline, one where characters like Jean and Professor X are still alive. a human." In the movie, the choice is handed over to Logan, who kills her for her own good while telling her he loves her. But it was more important to her that she die. The arc finishes with the famous quote, "Jean Grey could have lived to become a god. In the comics, her arc ends with her making the active choice to end her life for the greater good. Most damning, perhaps, is the movie's treatment of Jean Gray (Famke Janssen), who is given a bafflingly passive role in a movie that is supposedly about her. The fact that "The Last Stand" is also 30 minutes shorter than "X2" (for some reason) definitely didn't help.
Meanwhile, the Dark Phoenix saga in the comics is famous for being a sprawling, slow-burn story, yet "The Last Stand" felt perfectly comfortable making it this film's B-story.
The whole mutant cure storyline could've been fascinating, but the movie never seemed interested in unpacking the implications of it too deeply. But the biggest issue with the movie is the way it tries to cram together two major storylines that didn't fit.
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