Some call him Apocalypse, he's some kind of god... who got beaten down by a bunch of kids who are not even at the top of their game.
Fair warning: This entry involves spoilers!
So Apocalypse was supposed to be "bigger and even better than Days of the Future Past". We were promised BIG! What we got was...... mediocre.
I'll be honest as usual; as time gone by and we saw new trailers I started to lose my enthusiasm long before the movie came to the theaters. The trailers were just... not good. And it's never a good sign for the trailers to disappoint you.
What kept my hopes up was the success of Days of the Future Past (I saw it in the theater 5 times and I swear I lost count of how many times I've seen it after it was on digital release.) and of course the already amazing cast being supported with new amazing cast members.
So let's begin with the cast then... (Did I say cast too many times? Cast, cast, cast, cast)
One of the most popular actors in the past few years, the great Oscar Isaac, was the mighty Apocalypse. The problem was that neither Oscar Isaac was great nor Apocalypse was mighty.
I don't find the blame in Isaac in this one don't get me wrong. There was just not much for him to do. The character was written so badly into the screenplay that under all that makeup it could be an Oscar Isaac look alike and we wouldn't notice for as long as I'm concerned.
There is a great destruction but no motive.
Then there's the 4 horsemen. I get why Magneto and Angel would like to join Apocalypse to a certain level. Storm... okay he makes you more powerful and stuff but you are striving for good. You are looking up to Mystique for being a hero (don't even get me started on that). Why would you be a part of this immense destruction?
And Psylocke... I was so excited for this character to finally enter the X-Men universe, expecting so much from her; and I was sure that Olivia Munn was going to do justice to her being a big fan of the character. But again I was disappointed.
In the movie Psylocke was no more than a layerless, brainless, power hungry mutant that not only has a motive in life, except for jealousy towards every single soul she sees but really has no opinion of her own at all.
Thank God, at least Fassbender did justice to one of my favorite characters, and even though towards the end of the movie it is oddly vague what he is doing just floating around with a bunch of metal and doing some kind of a magnetic yoga (?), Magneto was one of the only well written characters in the story.
We also met some of the new students of Xavier's school for gifted youngsters.
I've never liked Cyclops and I never will so I'll just leave that there.
But I actually like the character Jean Grey (not in the movies but in the comics and cartoons etc.) but it had been destroyed for me by Famke Janssen and I was hoping for Sophie Turner to make it better for me in this one; only she didn't.
I really like her in Game of Thrones and I believed that she was a good actor until now. But the horrible accent and those empty eyes proved me wrong. I hate to say this but Turner was not a good Jean Grey.
I really liked Nightcrawler though. Kodi Smit-Mcphee's Nightcrawler really was one of the highlights for me in this movie. I wish they didn't delete so many good scenes of him in the final cut but at least he was in the final cut right Rogue?
Speaking of being left out of the movie... Did you see Jubilee? Because she was nothing more than an extra in the film.
I was just so excited that Jubilee was finally finding her place in the movies but... I don't remember did she even have a line? Did we even hear her speak? If you haven't read the comics or seen the cartoon tell me, do you know what Jubilee's powers are?
Did you also notice that at least 1/10 of the movie was scenes from First Class. At this point we have to admit that Brian Singer was too lazy to place clever dialogues to explain/remind us of the past events and just preferred to embed tiny flashbacks all over the movie. I don't know about you but I don't respect that.
Of course it's not fair to say that it was all bad.
Quicksilver again did his thing and signed for another unforgettable moment in the movie (probably one of the two best scenes in the entire movie with the Wolverine cameo).
If you've read my Quicksilver vs. Quicksilver entry, you know that I have a special place for Peters' Quicksilver in my heart. But still I can't help but admitting that at one point the school rescue scene (or whatever you would like to call it) seemed a little bit forced to me.
The kitchen scene of Days of the Future Past had a well deserved great success and I'm pretty sure a lot of people still watch just that scene particularly on an on again just like I still do. And even though the school scene was a great comic relief and it was really good, I can't help feeling like it was just a copy past of the kitchen scene in a different setting.
At the end of the day, I have no choice but to say that X-Men Apocalypse, even though it was a fun movie to watch, was not really what I expected.
It probably could be perceived better if we saw Apocalypse first and Days of the Future Past later; because I admit it was a though act to follow. But whether you enjoyed or were annoyed by it we have to agree in one point: it had the potential to much a much better movie. Let's hope the final Wolverine movie will erase our memories of this tragedy.
Anyway, at least we always have Deadpool :)
Thank you for reading my humble opinion.
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