It Redeems The Storyline After The Last Stand

2006's X-Men: The Last Stand is notorious for being one of the worst-received X-Men movies among fans. One of the reasons for this is because of how the Dark Phoenix adaptation was handled. It was bad enough that Jean Grey's villainous self was forced to share screen time with the mutant cure plot, but on top of that, Jean's Dark Phoenix powers were attributed to being a subconscious separate personality rather than anything extraterrestrial. Now that the "First Class" trilogy is working with a relatively fresh timeline, as well as X-Men: Apocalypse having reintroduced the Phoenix Force, this is the perfect time to re-tackle the storyline and give it its proper due.