Directed by : Bryan Singer
Written by : Simon Kinberg
Starring : Oscar Isaac, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Rose Byrne, Evan Peters, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tye Sheridan
Release Date : May 18, 2016
With a title like "X-Men: Apocalypse," it might seem like this is going to be a movie with non-stop action. I'm afraid to say that isn't the case. Director Bryan Singer and Screenwriter Simon Kinberg must have had a hell of a time trying to juggle all these characters into a cohesive story, and still make us care about what's going to happen. Due to that fact, a good huge chunk of time is spent on new character introductions, the like you normally see in origin stories, which is something we all just have to put up with. With the huge amount of people they have for this story, there just isn't much time to establish proper character developments to make us truly care for them.
Out of the new characters, En Sabah Nur, Jean Grey, Kurt Wagner, and Scott Summers, respectively played by Oscar Isaac, Sophie Turner, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Tye Sheridan, were the only ones I could remotely have any genuine interest in. Even then, it wasn't as much as I'd hope. Even the well established cast from the previous films had to share screen time to the point that it feels like they were just underutilized. The only two that really stood out were Magneto and Quicksilver, because each one of them arguably had the best scenes that this movie had to offer.
Despite the patchwork feel of the movie just showing us scene after scene after scene, just for the sake of moving the story along, it still somehow manages to entertain with some huge spectacles. Spectacles in the sense of mutant powers being used in grand ways, as well as in very destructive ways. While it's fun seeing those mutant powers on screen, unfortunately when it actually came to the fight sequences, there really wasn't much going on there. The movie boils down to seeing En Sabah Nur's master plan play out, the X-Men characters having earnest discussions with each other, attempting to add levity with multiple forced jokes that just fall flat, and just the simple case of being a comic book fan geeking out on seeing these classic characters on screen.
Despite those certain scenes that genuinely stood out in "X-Men: Apocalypse," this still felt mostly like an unmemorable movie that doesn't live up to it's own ambitions. It does open up exciting new possibilities for the next film though, so despite my lack of enthusiasm, I'm still all in with this movie franchise.
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