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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 DanTheMan123 ★★★

While some may not like it I'm gonna say this film is OK. This film is directed by Bryan Singer and Stars Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence,James McAvoy, Sophie Turner,Oscar Isaac and others that are returning for this fine but not that good of an installment to the X-Men Franchise. This film is easily more of a risk taker and does alot of things that pay off...and alot that doesn't. Easily the best part of this film is Magneto (Michael Fassbender) as he brings such emotional parts in this film that he easily had the best performance in this. Sophie Turner as Jean Grey was a real big meh and I hope they do more character development in the next film.…
Review by giulia ★★½

quicksilver's scene is the only thing I love the most about this movie
Review by nina_pile ★★★½

Apocalypse und seine vier Reiter sind im neuen X-Men Film nicht nur eine Legende, sondern eine handfeste Bedrohung. Sie sind fast allmächtig und man fragt sich, wie die X-Men sich dieser Herausforderung stellen können. Denn zehn Jahre nach den Ereignissen des letzten Films ist das Team in alle Winde verstreut: Professor X und Beast leben friedlich in Charles' Villa, Magneto ist untergetaucht und Mystique befreit auf eigene Faust unterdrückte Mutanten. Deswegen muss sich ein neues Team zusammenfinden, um gegen den allmächtigen Mutanten zu kämpfen. X-MEN APOCALYPSE scheut nicht davor, viele Figuren einzuführen. Und das sehr ausführlich, ohne langweilig zu werden. Und dadurch, dass der Film sich so viel Zeit nimmt, Cyclops, Jean Grey und Co. vorzustellen, baut man eine Bindung…
Review by Daryl Purdie ★★★★

#Filmreview X-Men: Apocalypse ★★★★ As much as I don't really like the genre, seeing this Imax 3D was great fun & IMHO the best of the last 3
Review by Chris_M ★★★★

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

NCG Spartanburg - I really liked this movie. The people that I went with had mixed reviews, some liked it a lot like me and some didn’t like it at all. It was set when the X-men haven’t even been formed yet. Professor X and magneto are young men and cyclops and the others are basically teenagers. I thought the effects were really good and I love the way they spliced religion the film. I thought the concept of a super mutant that learned how to transfer the powers of other mutants to him was really good. With that kind of power it is easy to see why you would think of yourself as a God and the ruler of…
Review by transmanrogers ★★½

I just can't truly believe that's actually Oscar Isaac. Like, the movie is definitely one of the lesser ones of the series - but boy, the man can act.
Review by jamaiolo ★★★

can't believe oscar isaac turned blue for this
Review by jgmoq ½

好難看
Review by Chris W ★★★ 3

Definitely one of the worst X-Men movies, going toe-to-toe against Origins: Wolverine. This movie is just all over the place. Not only is storyline bloated as fuck, the movie is full of clashing and mismatching tones that don’t work together at all.

Everything surrounding the big bad Apocalypse is so uninspiring and bland, resulting in the most boring “end of the world” third acts I’ve ever seen in a superhero movie. The CGI resembles video games more than anything, and the makeup on characters like Mystique, Nightcrawler and Beast honestly looks so cheap that it takes me out of the movie.

It’s not completely bad, thanks to McAvoy and Fassbender who once again deliver the best performances. Sadly, I couldn’t…