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X-Men: Apocalypse

2016 Directed by Bryan Singer

Only the strong will survive

After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.

James McAvoy Michael Fassbender Jennifer Lawrence Nicholas Hoult Oscar Isaac Rose Byrne Evan Peters Josh Helman Sophie Turner Tye Sheridan Lucas Till Kodi Smit-McPhee Ben Hardy Alexandra Shipp Lana Condor Olivia Munn Warren Scherer Rochelle Okoye Monique Ganderton Fraser Aitcheson Abdulla Hamam Hesham Hammoud Antonio Daniel Hidalgo Al Maini Berdj Garabedian Ally Sheedy Anthony Konechny Emma Elle Paterson Manuel Sinor Show All…

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Review by Evan ★★★ 10

Also known as X-Men: The Mummy Returns Part 2.
Review by Matt Singer ★★½ 7

"When Nightcrawler broke into the White House at the start of 2003’s X2, it was a watershed moment in the history of comic book movies. Here was one of comics’ most fantastical characters - a blue-skinned, three-fingered German demon with a pointy, prehensile tail and teleportation powers - brought to life with all of his outlandish quirks and powers intact, showcased in a sequence that was thrilling and utterly convincing. It was something no one had ever seen before. It was truly uncanny.

It is telling of the state of superhero movies in 2016 that when Nightcrawler returns in the new X-Men: Apocalypse, he’s treated basically as a throw-in background character and his powers are used with little fanfare, mostly…
Review by matt lynch ★★★ 11

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.
Review by Arielrocks5 ★★★★★ 76

I'm not a massive "X-Men" fan as I've expressed in the past.

Sure, I binged on the movies and enjoyed most of them, but it wasn't due to my childhood of growing up with the comics or the cartoons, loving everything about them and playing games pretending to be some with friends.

It was mostly due to the fact that the latest entry was coming out and I wanted to check it out because I figured why not? Part of the reason why I skipped seeing it in theaters was due to negative buzz, and no one wanted to see it with me (I'm a lonely person if you couldn't tell).

Seeing how I had nothing better to do, I…
Review by Gonzo ★½ 12

▶ Gonzo's 2016 Movie Rankings

Is it good?
Unfortunately, no. Like most life-long X-Men fans, I've prayed for the day that Apocalypse and his Horsemen would grace the big screen, but what we get is such a muddled mess of a film, which is quite a disappointment.

How bad is it?
It's so bad, you wouldn't believe that Bryan Singer—the man who brought us two of the best superhero movies around, X2 and Days of Future Past—is responsible for this. It's such a shockingly huge drop-off in quality from DoFP that you'd think Brett Ratner returned.

How's Sophie Turner as Jean Grey and Tye Sheridan as Scott Summers/Cyclops?
Turner... she's okay. Same with Sheridan. Their chemistry though needs some work.…
Review by davidehrlich ★★★ 7

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 graves for the pharaohs, it turns out that the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were conceived as an instrument for history's very first mutant, a quasi-immortal purple guy called En Sabah Nur (a.k.a. "Apocalypse") to ritualistically transfer his consciousness from a dying body to a healthy one. Ben Carson was way off the mark.

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Review by SymonP ★★½

My review here: ascwblog.blogspot.it/2016/05/x-men-apocalisse-la-recensione.html
Review by HolyMovieBatman ★★★

Very middle of the road as far as the X-Men movies go. Unfortunately, X-Men Apocalypse fails to capitalize on what made the previous installment so good, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have its own charms.

First off, by far what makes this installment so much more lackluster than other X-Men movies is it's villain. Apocalypse, who should've been a great villain (and is a classic one at that), is reduced to a villain with a lackluster motivation with terrible writing. Apocalypse has his moments, but they're far too few.

Besides that, the film is just really uneven and too long. It constantly teeters back and forth between seeming like a good movie and one that makes too many glaring…
Review by keeley ★★★½

can u believe quicksilver saved the x-men cinematic universe
Review by Atanas Ilinov ★★★½

Dialogue - 3.8/10
Plot - 5.3/10
Characters - The four horsemen didn't get a lot of development. Apart from Storm, maybe. - 7/10
Performances - Everyone apart from Jennifer Lawrence was amazing. - 7.5/10
Soundtrack - 7.8/10
Cinematography - 10/10
Special effects - 7.5/10
Production design - 8/10
Action - 8/10
Villain - 9/10
Dumb elements - 3.5/10
Entertainment value - 6.5/10

Overall rating - 7/10
Review by Nyle_Glin ★★

I went for a pee during this and when I came back Auschwitz had blown up

That alone earned it one star more than it really deserves
Review by Angelika Villand ★★★★

i tell you, quicksilver's gonna save the world someday.
Review by lauren ✨🌻 ★★★★

i need a nathan for you episode where nathan helps charles run a school that's both successful and doesn't get destroyed every few months
Review by R Treybian Pete ★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

So, I've finally seen this. It's not as bad as I've heard. I mean it's not as good as Days of Future Past, but it's not "X-Men: Last Stand" bad. It's not
"X-Men: Origins" bad. I liked Apocalypse. I liked Sophie Turner's Jean Grey, though she really didn't do anything. But here's one thing they were right about... Jennifer Lawrence definitely "phoned in" her performance. She was every bit as wooden, as she was in those final Hunger Games movies. Overall, it's not a horrible addition to the superhero genre. BTW, they should have left the mall scenes in. We never got to see the life of a student at Xavier's School for Higher Learning.
Review by angelosaenz ★★

Where to start? Firstly Apocalypse looks like Ivan Ooze from the Power Rangers movie of '95. Secondly the movie was too long by about an hour. Thirdly, idk if the comics support it but from a theme standpoint the whole end the world and start fresh concept is so played out. The fact the Wolverine provided the best scene in a cameo fashion speaks volumes to the crappiness of everything else.
I'm also confused. Why did they Americanize Sophie Turner's voice? Don't Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy speak as close to their normal voices as possible?
Somebody must have had dirt on Oscar Isaac cuz he's too good for a film like this.