Also known as X-Men: The Mummy Returns Part 2. 

See what you want to do when you cast one of the most handsome men on the planet is bury him beneath 60 pounds of hideous blue makeup, have him talk in a hilariously goofy voice, and only do incredibly uncool things like stick his hand on a television screen and moan “Lllllleeeeeeearniiiiiiing.” That’s just smart business sense!

Also, in the last scene of Days of Future Past, Wolverine is fished out of the water by Mystique disguised as Stryker. In this movie, it’s revealed that Wolverine has been held captive for ten years by ... the real Stryker? Great work everyone! Super glad everyone was paying attention!

Flailing, repetitive, shapeless, silly, yeah to all that, but stick with it and you'll find one of the most tantalizingly bugnuts entries in this series, one that mostly even sheds the usual bread-and-butter thuddingly obvious social politics and the recent episodes' clumsy Cold War shenanigans for something way weirder and thornier. Seems actively engaged with the idea of these characters' ceaseless recapitulation of emotional baggage and secret pain and cyclical re-radicalization, at the end even dredging up from the depths the raw material of past trauma in order to form it into new structures. Doesn't even peak with such craziness as Magneto laying waste to a deserted Auschwitz or a nuclear Armageddon reflected in Stan Lee's stupid sunglasses. These movies will probably never get back to the relative simplicity, dare I say elegance, of X2, and accordingly this is a total mess, but wow what a mess.

you know what ...... here's a review of the gag reel instead

the high point: erik saying to charles, "i love your body." charles responding, "i love my body too. every tuesday night. and i think of you."
the low point: there's straight up just a montage of j*nnifer l*wrence saying "lunch!"

When almost all Hollywood superhero movies, despite their box office success, are going downhill when it comes to film quality, X-Men franchise proves to still be a relief, although Apocalypse is far from the most inspired of it. There are some interesting new mutants and nice explanations for the origin or traits of others - although with many continuity mistakes as is a major problem of the whole franchise. Though, there are also some silly and cliché dialogues and a supervillain who could have been more impressive.

It's not as bad as people make it out to be. Still really bad tho.

www.metacritic.com/movie/x-men-apocalypse

De forma desorganizada, "X-Men: Apocalypse" não é convincente o suficiente para manter a maestria de alguns dos filmes do mesmo universo anteriores.

B.

Goofy as hell, way too long, and a nonsensical script. It's got fun moments though, despite the majority of the run time being kind of dull.

Bryan Singer no tiene idea de lo que hace

This movie looks really good, moves really slowly, approaches (but doesn't achieve) the emotional and thematic heights that the best X-Men movies do, and it moves so effing slowly.

Did I mention how slow this movie feels?

It feels slow.

Outside of Magneto's excellent arc, there is just so little going on in this movie, yet it takes so horribly long to get anywhere.

And Apocalypse himself is just such a weak villain, which doesn't help the momentum of the plot. He's hardly developed at all as a character, and his "hey ima big bad powerful gonna end da world guy" gimmick is just so bland (even if the false idols/disarmament wrinkle COULD have been interesting).

But the movie basically does the X-Men things. It just doesn't do them especially well. But the movie is ultimately fine. It is very slow and acceptable and fine.

2.25/4