As with most years in the 2010s, the final year of the decade was jam-packed with comic book movie and superhero movie goodness!
We saw releases featuring Marvel characters, DC characters and more – and we were suitably entertained throughout the year as a result.
They weren’t all great – not by any stretch of the imagination – but all of them had their good points and, as fans of the superhero genre, we enjoyed them all (at least a little bit) regardless.
Rather conveniently, there were precisely ten movies that fell into the comic book/superhero category so, in this piece, we’re going to count them down, top ten style, from worst to best, for your reading pleasure!
Enjoy!
10. X-Men: Dark Phoenix
The final year of the 2010s also brought to a close the phenomenon that is the X-Men movie franchise, which started with the appropriately titled X-Men way back in the year 2000.
The finale came in the form of X-Men: Dark Phoenix – but to say it was a fitting finale would be, frankly, a huge lie.
Simply put, it was the worst movie in the franchise – and the worst on our list by quite some distance – as Fox made a second attempt at adapting one of the most iconic X-Men stories on the big screen (the first being in 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand).
Dark Phoenix saw Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey being possessed by the cosmic entity known as the Phoenix Force, forcing her heroic mutant teammates into action to prevent her from potentially destroying the Earth.
While it did have its good points – Turner ably portrayed a Jean Grey consumed by her awesome power, for instance – the rest of the cast looked disinterested, the plot was cumbersome, the dialogue was terribly expository and there were funny moments that weren’t meant to be funny.
All things considered, it was a bit of a mess – but we’re sure staunch X-fans enjoyed it anyway!
9. Glass
When Split was released in 2016, the final scene of the movie delivered a wonderful surprise – it was set in the same universe as 2000’s Unbreakable!
This year, the third movie in what is now known as the Unbreakable Trilogy was released – in the form of Glass.
The movie saw the worlds of Samuel L. Jackson’s Elijah Price AKA Mr. Glass, Bruce Willis’ David Dunn AKA the Overseer, and James McAvoy’s Kevin Wendell Crumb AKA the Horde colliding, as all three men found themselves imprisoned within the same facility – Raven Hill Memorial Mental Institute.
It’s a very dialogue heavy movie that takes things very slowly – it certainly isn’t a typical superhero movie by any stretch of the imagination – and while it wasn’t great (some people said it was the low point of M. Night Shyamalan’s career), we think the critics were a little harsh on it.
It had some interesting (if not slightly predictable) twists and James McAvoy was absolutely fantastic as Crumb, but its main problem was its somewhat incomprehensible timeline – meaning that it had the somewhat unique and contradictory trait of being hard to keep up with, in spite of its slow pace.
