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Movie Info. SynopsisWorshiped as a god since the dawn of civilization, the immortal Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) becomes the first and most powerful mutant. Awakening after thousands of years, he ...
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- Isn’T: The Editing
- Is: Franchise Fatigue
- Isn’T: It Ties Up Lots of Loose Ends
- Is: What It Sets Up Isn’T Interesting
- Isn’T: Oscar Isaac’s Performance
- Is: Oscar Isaac’s Costume
- Isn’T: That Weapon X Scene
- Is: Rehashed Ideas
- Isn’T: The Music
- Is: An Underwhelming Finale
Even though it trips over its own feet in the end, X-Men: Apocalypse is, for the most part, a well-paced action-adventure movie that moves readily between gigantic set pieces. While Days of Future Past acted as a kind of bridge between old and new for the franchise, Apocalypse acts as a bridge between new and even newer in a quickly moving story, c...
Fox's X-Men franchise is quite the rollercoaster in terms of quality but that's part of what's kept fans' interest in it alive. Even at its worst, the way that each movie is constructed is worth talking about. X-Men: Apocalypse a little less so. The movie is the fourth in the franchise from original director Bryan Singer, who has had his own person...
Not only does X-Men: Apocalypse assemble the core members of the titular superteam and give them each a healthy amount of backstory but it also ties up a number of loose plot threads from previous movies in a satisfyingly conclusive way. Charles Xavier returns the memories he stole to Moira MacTaggart and Mystique is brought back into the fold whil...
While X-Men: Apocalypse often feels like the end of a new trilogy, it actually isn't. Dark Phoenix, following three years later, would actually prove to be the final chapter in Fox's X-Men as audiences know them and, considering the opening that Apocalypse leaves for it, it's easy to see why that movie flopped harderthan any of the others before it...
Oscar Isaacseems like an odd choice for a flamboyantly dressed villain but he's actually one of the movie's more rewarding creative choices. X-Men: Apocalypse taps into a culturally relevant vein of political demagoguery and Isaac really sells the titular villain as being equal parts compelling and psychotic.
Everything that's great about Isaac's performance as En Sabah Nur is limited to what's able to escape the confines of his ridiculously restrictive costume. This is, again, a credit to Isaac's talent as an actor but a damning indictment of the movie's shortsighted decisionmaking. Isaac does a great job of portraying a bad guy so powerful that he doe...
No matter what you may think of X-Men: Apocalypse as a sequel, action movie, or comic book adaptation, the Weapon X scene with Hugh Jackmanis simply awesome. RELATED: Wolverine: 5 Marvel Heroes Who Respect Him (& 5 Who Despise Him) It was Jackman's final appearance in the mainline X-Men movies before retiring from the role in James Mangold's Logan ...
The X-Men movie franchise actually did already have a number of well-executed sequences and ideas under its belt by the time that Apocalypse came out, which the movie frequently reminds the audience of to the point of actual irritation. The Weapon X scene expands on an idea that had never really been realized before but the repeat of Quicksilver's ...
John Ottman's score for X-Men: Apocalypse, in conjunction with the overall sound editing and mixing,is one of the movie's best qualities and enhances a number of scenes that would almost certainly feel clunky without it. The use of music, in general, throughout the movie has a palpable effect on the viewer, helping set the scene and give color to t...
The movie's climax in Egypt ultimately loses all the momentum that the rest of X-Men: Apocalypse so successfully builds up. After dealing with the antagonist's henchmen on a one-on-one basis, what the audience is left with for the grand finale is Oscar Isaac's villain (who can barely move in his costume) swiping his hands at the heroes as they fool...
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May 27, 2016 · Instead, it magnifies all the worst issues of the genre, serving up a story that would have felt dated five years ago. “X-Men: Apocalypse” is a confused, bloated mess of a film. There are several films crammed into one, all battling for the spotlight, and none of them wholly work; there is really no central storyline or heart to the film.
May 27, 2016 · X-Men: Apocalypse: Directed by Bryan Singer. With James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult. In the 1980s, the X-Men must defeat an ancient all-powerful mutant, En Sabah Nur, who intends to thrive by bringing destruction to the world.
- (467K)
- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Bryan Singer
- 2016-05-27
May 24, 2016 · The film is no masterpiece, but that score is crazy. Here's why Apocalypse isn't anywhere near as bad as the majority of critics have declared it to be, and how it might surprise you if you're ...
May 9, 2016 · David Ehrlich. Right from the opening scene, set in 3600 B.C., “ X-Men: Apocalypse ” challenges what you know about the past. Take, for example, the Egyptian pyramids. Once thought to be ...
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May 11, 2016 · For Apocalypse is easily the most sprawling and lavishly comic book-like X-Men movie ... fighting the good fight; and Apocalypse essentially forms a glam rock band of destruction that includes ...
