A young girl who survives a family tragedy.

A girl who is only just getting to grips with her mutant powers. A girl called Jean Grey.

X-Men: Dark Phoenix takes us back a couple of decades when the X-Men were seen as heroes, a younger Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) heads the school for mutants and has both adoration from the public and U.S. President aswell as a safe haven for mutants.

He takes in Jean Grey as a child and suppresses her memories of the emotional childhood experience and teaches the young Jean to take control of her powers.

As the years go on, Jean who is also known as Phoenix does well, and becomes a valuable member of the X-Men, however, one mission sets to rescue stranded astronauts on the outer sphere of Earth sees Jean’s powers infused with an intergalactic force which unlocks those memories that had been well forgotten and sees Jean taking no sides but her own as she gets to grips with herself.

Her destructive path of self-discovery leads her to a commune heralded by Xaviers old ‘friend’ Magneto (Michael Fassbender).

But as the local law enforcement, Government officials and the X-Men are all trying to reel her in, her powers become darker as does her personality quickly making Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) the most powerful and formidable mutant of them all. Even compassion from long time X-Men friend Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) does not stop her…

X-Men: Dark Phoenix is a necessary chapter to the franchise as it explores one of our most beloved and perhaps lesser known characters backstory.

For many who have followed the films a few questions will be answered from the series, but just as easily, the well-crafted film could also be a standalone in its own right.

Loved it, would definitely see it again. Full recommend to all X-Men fans.

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This is X-Men, Wolverine, but not as you as you expect.

Gone is the Mansion, the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, the mutant hero squads and the spandex.

Set in the near future within Marvel’s X-Men world we see an older, grislier and raw Wolverine or Logan (Hugh Jackman) as his age and skeletal infused adamantium begin to catch up with him.

Logan has long left behind the days of X-Men glory and scrapes a living together as a Limo Driver close to the border of Mexico.

In the past two decades the mutant numbers have dwindled as no more mutants were being born. Those that were mutant from birth or otherwise were hunted down.

Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) is not immune to the progression of events either, as his health is failing and his powers become uncontrollable with age.

However – there are still mutants out there, one in particular called Laura (Dafne Keen), a child with a surprising ability that is all too familiar to Logan.

Laura has been looked after by a nurse, after the nurse freed her from an experimental program where children with powers were being exploited, tested and enhanced. The nurse and Laura had been on the run for some time and had been tracking down Logan, who she believed is the only one who could help the pre-teen girl.

Logan has many a surprise in store for viewers, none of which I’ll hint at here. There is the cliche British villain (as there always is and correctly pointed out by Deadpool in the Deadpool Movie) and a military faction hot on the heels of Logan, Xavier and another mutant that they had been seeking refuge with; Caliban (Stephen Merchant).

Logan is no holds barred film, it takes stock in not being censored or following the familiar Marvel Super Hero formula. Logan is a complete stand alone and is a story of a man who protects a child at any cost.

For those gamers that have played The Last of Us, you will know what I mean here and you will also notice the similarities in storylines.

For me to say  that Logan is a film you need to see – it’s an understatement. Logan is a film that you will watch and then want to see again, immediately after.

It’s everything that Super Hero films are not, and then its something else entirely different.