There is a lot of potential for objects to be flung at the audience in Dark Phoenix, and a good number of moments come in the first act of the film. Between Jean’s childhood incident and the shuttle rescue sequence alone, this film started off strong in terms of breaking the window between the audience and the movie. Yet that really doesn’t happen all too much in Dark Phoenix, as once you get past that set piece, the film doesn’t do all that much to break that window again. A couple of sequences have weapons drawn and pointed at the audience, which is almost always a good opportunity to break the window, but it stops just short of doing so.