After 4 years, a corporate merger, reshoots, COVID-19, a half-assed Theatrical release during a Pandemic and bouncing around Streaming sources, I can finally see this Film.
Was it worth all of the wait and drama? Let's see...
She finds out that she's not allowed to leave thanks to, well, no SPOILERS (for those who didn't see/don't remember the Trailer).
The Hospital has only one Doctor and four other patients- Cannoball, Magik, Sunspot and Wolfsbane.
They are there due to their powers making them a threat to themselves and others.
They are promised that if they pass, they will move on to another place (implied to be the X-Mansion).
Dani does not want to stay, as she is dealing with Survivor's Guilt (among other things).
She makes a connection with Rahne/Wolfsbane, which seems to help her.
As time goes on, the group begins to gel and find that they have common ground, despite their many differences.
They also learn what Dani's power is and, well, I won't SPOIL it here.
When they find out even more secrets, will they ever get out alive?
To find out, stream the Film now on Disney +.
It honestly doesn't suck. I think that was the general consensus- at least among the many, many people that never actually saw the thing. I don't blame them for that last part. Life didn't make it easy to see this Film! Even after its release, you had to willingly go on HBO Max to see this for a while. No thanks.
The actual Film is good. I liked it. They tell a good Story with a small Cast to really focus things. Everyone has a Story involving their powers and why they are here. The Doctor has her own story as the truth unfolds. They aren't all the same, which would be an easy trap to fall into.
The Acting is nice too, as subtle moments are allowed to happen between the big, crazy set pieces. The finale is definitely one of those and is built up nicely. Fans of the Comics should be happy with most of what they get, I think. Random Casting issues aside- Sunspot being played by a non-Afro-Brazilian mostly- the Cast all worked for me.
The biggest drawback, honestly, is that this builds off of the Story set up in the last few X-Men projects- X-Men: Apocalypse and Logan, mainly- and that went nowhere, since Simon Kinberg decided to do Dark Phoenix again. Oh well!
I'll leave you a reenactment of every Fox Executives face when the Disney deal started and they had to figure out what to do with this...
A good, if imperfect, Film that suffered from many outside issues. It is far from 'the worst X-Men Film' as some have said.
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