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Movie Review: X-Men Apocalypse

by
Mark
-
May 22, 2016
Movie Review: X-Men Apocalypse

The opening weekend sees the latest installment in the MCUs X-Men series in one of its more unstable states with audiences having a split reaction either loving or hating the interpretation.

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The apparent center of the world according to Apocalypse

There is a huge departure from how it was in the comics – a lot of the origin stories are muddled up and cross references within the movies in the franchise sometimes seem to not add up. The departure I can forgive, but errors in the continuity that could’ve been addressed are quite blatant with the largest being the characters Angel/Archangel and Nightcrawler who appears in two timelines now having two different origins.

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The Archangel character is a bit short for my taste and his final suit just plain looks weird like he was from a space expedition or something
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The new nightcrawler is a good fit, better than the previous assassin to the POTUS

Sub-title:

The main antagonist, whose name appears on the title – Apocalypse, gets a very short run with just this movie.

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Apocalypse with three of his four horsemen available. Psylocke who was one of the most anticipated characters was downplayed and didn’t have plenty of scenes

His is quite the forgettable character and with his incineration at the very end, wouldn’t make sense to have him appear once more in any future iteration.

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The Apocalypse – Cerebro effect, a part of Professor Xs assault on him during the final battle
Jean Grey having a nightmare about the Phoenix Force bubbling up inside of her
Jean Grey having a nightmare about the Phoenix Force bubbling up inside of her

It’s fine cinematically speaking and also quite accurate if it faced off with the Phoenix force, but his development seems to be haphazardly put together and abruptly extinguished audience wouldn’t even care who played the role.

What this movie really is:

Going into it and expecting plenty of action is fine and provided for.

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An unknown bridge on some city that is being pulled apart by massive electromagnetic forces

The confusion is a bit unwelcome but the current generation, who didn’t grow up with comics, would have this part of the MCU as one of their guideposts when tracing heroes and powers.

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Not-the-X-Men on not-the-Blackbird

The movie presents the re-institution of the X-Men collaborative team-up and ties up loose ends from “First Class” and “Days of Future Past”.

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This movie actually tells us how Professor X lost all his hair – it fell off because Apocalypse needs a bald new host to inhabit XD

Watching it once is good enough… you can do it in 3D or even in IMAX if you want to but you dont really need to. Good but not great, I’d give it a 3 out of 5.

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