X MEN APOCALYPSE FILM REVIEW MOVIE

At the same time, Raven/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) roams the word, saving mutants in unfortunate predicaments, and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) has taken a new identity and remained in hiding.

There are some fun moments with the younger X-Men as Scott finds his place and begins to feel more comfortable with his powers. Scott’s predicament is our segue into Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, which is already thriving, and we see a much happier Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), Jubilee (Lana Condor), and eventually, Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and Quicksilver (Evan Peters). The scene is a call-back of sorts to Bryan Singer’s first X-Men film, as I was strongly reminded of Anna Paquin’s Rogue discovering her power for the first time. And then the film shifts ahead to an Ohio high school in 1983, where Scott Summers (Tye Sheridan) is coming into his powers. The sequence is visually impressive and sets the stage for an action-packed movie. While the transfer is successful, circumstances transpire to prevent Apocalypse from leaving the temple.

X MEN APOCALYPSE FILM REVIEW MOVIE

The movie opens in the Nile Valley in 3600 B.C.E., with Apocalypse preparing to transfer into the body of En Sabah Nur (Oscar Isaac). In a year full of movies in which superheroes fight superheroes, X-Men: Apocalypse re-treads similar ground instead of exploring new ground. It just isn’t as good as X-Men: Days of Future Past or X-Men: First Class. That’s not to say it’s a bad movie – it’s not. Perhaps that’s why X-Men: Apocalypse is more than a little disappointing. The X-Men franchise has been one of the more reliably satisfying super-hero series since its inception in 2000 (if you over look X-Men: The Last Stand, which I usually do).

X men apocalypse film review