[Sean C]

I think THE LAST STAND was better overall.

DARK PHOENIX SPOILERS:
The big problem is the aliens. They felt shoehorned in, so that humanity and/or Jean herself wouldn't be the enemy. It's oddball to add aliens to the franchise after all this time in the very last movie (maybe not intended to be the last movie). That the other problem, suddenly after years of heroics by the X-Men, THE ENTIRE WORLD turns against all mutants because Jean Grey hurts some cops (and kills someone, but it's a mutant, so normies won't care). Somehow the X-Men had prevented any such mutant incidents for the past 10 years...I guess.

The cure plot in Last Stand fit the franchise better than aliens who want phoenix force and will...*gag* destroy Earth if they get it...BECAUSE EVIL ALIENS. There's always gotta be something like that. High stakes in comic book movies are so common now that they are boring.

And how much can we care about NuJean, after appearing in one movie before, compared to Famke's Jean?

And the whole aging thing. Beast is like 50 but doesn't act like it.

Magneto's allies were once again disposable one-off non-entities.