X-Men Apocalypse (2016)
With the emergence of the world's first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Director: Bryan Singer
Writers: Simon Kinberg (screenplay), Bryan Singer (story) |
Stars: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence | See full cast & crew

Storyline
Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshiped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel's X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto, to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven with the help of Professor X must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction.

 User Reviews
Coming off the heels of 2014's stellar Days of Future Past, I had very high expectations of the third entry in this soft-rebooted series. X-Men Days of Future Past and First Class were not only brilliant X-Men films, but brilliant films in their own right, and are both in among st some of the best movies of the last few years.

Unfortunately, X-Men Apocalypse really isn't a worthy continuation of what was a brilliant run - the two years in which it was made seem to have been wasted on special effects and style over substance. Fast tracking a film in this fashion and pumping it put of the works in two years is a vain attempt at squeezing out as much profit from the franchise as they can before Days of Future Past's brilliance falls to the back of peoples minds.

This new entry is as flashy as ever, and some of the effects do impress (whilst others are terrible), but it is a typical case of sporting more style than substance, and its very noticeable. It's primarily fueled by effects driven action sequences, and this becomes very boring toward the latter half of the film. For what was a 2 and a half hour film felt like an absolute eternity.

The acting is very good, and I have no qualms with the actors - they all played their roles incredibly well and Fassbender and McAvoy were as brilliant as ever. The characters, however, were incredibly underwritten and dis-interesting. The 'new' character additions are poorly conceived and there's a little bit too much going on and too many to keep track of which will prove very unwieldy for some. They've tried to cram a few too many characters into the film, and it doesn't pan out well.

All this being said, X-Men: Apocalypse is not a bad film at all - it's not good either, it's just OK. And it is incredibly disappointing because the last two entries have been nothing short of incredible.

I realize people will not like to hear this and will dislike this review based on those merits, but I would prefer to get dislikes and give an honest review than lie. In the end, X-Men: Apocalypse has some moments of glory, but these moments are too few and far between, eventuating in a fairly tedious onslaught of special effects and dull action melange.

X-Men: Apocalypse Trailer (2016) Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender Movie HD