X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014
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May 27, 2016 · Rated: 3/5 Aug 20, 2022 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review If there's one characteristic that sets the X-Men franchise apart from the MCU, its how rarely the films remain true to the...
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- Bryan Singer
- PG-13
- James Mcavoy
May 27, 2016 · “X-Men: Apocalypse” should be a corrective measure, considering its ensemble allows for the opportunity to focus on popular female and people-of-color characters. Instead, it magnifies all the worst issues of the genre, serving up a story that would have felt dated five years ago.
- The old make way for the new in a fun but lightweight sequel.
- Verdict
By Daniel Krupa
Updated: Nov 5, 2018 7:22 pm
Posted: May 9, 2016 9:00 pm
The year is 1983 and Charles Xavier, wearing a fetching mauve sweater and looking as if he’s been watching too much Miami Vice, is busy tutoring a new generation of gifted children. And that’s what X-Men: Apocalypse is really all about – building for the future, ensuring several more X-Men movies can be made. Approached squarely on those terms, it’s a lot of fun, and new cast are likeable and take well to their iconic roles. But if you’re expecting a more direct continuation of First Class and Days of Future Past, like I was, you might be a touch disappointed.
A decade has passed since we last saw Xavier, Magneto, and the rest. For some little has changed in that time. Xavier and Beast are taking in and teaching more gifted kids who can't find a place within society. Meanwhile, Magneto has begun a new life under an assumed identity. But this peace is shattered when an ancient force – Apocalypse, who many believe to be the world's first mutant – awakens and wishes to destroy the world. After the time-travelling convolutions of Days of Future Past, Apocalypse is refreshingly simple and straightforward. But this simplicity of plot also extends elsewhere, as the depth and complexity of DOFP and First Class is stripped away.
Both of those movies invested considerable time in establishing and elaborating a few key relationships. At the centre of it all, of course, was the problematic friendship of Professor X (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender), but the pair barely share a scene together here. That fascinating relationship, which so neatly condenses the wider mutant predicament, is put on hold, and as a result the movie inevitably loses some of its emotional weight and complexity.
As a conclusion to a trilogy, Apocalypse falls somewhat short. It marginalises key relationships in favour of establishing new ones, and lacks the depth and distinctive historical flavour of its immediate predecessors. But taken as the next chapter in the series, Apocalypse is an undeniably fun and entertaining adventure and does a pretty good job ...
May 9, 2016 · Review. X-Men: Apocalypse review – lots of bangs for your bucks but loopiness is lost. The latest X-Men prequel goes back to the 1980s, but the now-regulation destruction is beginning to...
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- Peter Bradshaw
May 26, 2016 · Stone-faced royals and functionaries partaking in it sport jewelry, makeup and scars that once again inspire a viewer to ponder why contemporary Hollywood insistently looks to Burning Man to inform...
- Bryan Singer
- Glenn Kenny
- 144 min
Parents need to know that X-Men: Apocalypse (the third film in the X-Men: First Class reboot series), pits the super-powered heroes against a mighty foe who's bent on nothing less than laying waste to the whole world. Expect plenty of superhero-style action violence; aside from one sequence with…
X-Men: Apocalypse Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Grant Watson Fiction Machine. Much of the film is spent either reminding and recalling previous events...
