It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
So about halfway through the movie, a character makes what was probably supposed to be a humorous quip about Return of the Jedi that was probably was supposed to be tongue in cheek but became true; the third one always sucks...
Ten years has taken place since Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto (Michael Fassbender) attempted to kill a whole lot of politicians in the last movie (something everyone might now be on board with given Americas current situation! #PoliticalHumor). Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Hank McCoy/Beast (Nicholas Hoult) has gotten the School for Gifted Youngsters up and running while Raven/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) has been busy helping mutants in bad situations. Everyone seems pretty happy and life is good!
Well, it was good. Back in the Egyptian days, the All-Powerful mutant Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) was being evil until the Egyptians overthrew his rule and buried him alive in a pyramid. A group finds this tomb, waking Apocalypse up so that he can go all "Hitlers Final Solution" on the world and destroy it to rebuild it in his image. He recruits his "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" with Angel (Ben Hardy), Storm (Alexandra Shipp), Psylocke (Olivia Munn), and Magneto joining him. Oh, and Colonel Stryker (Josh Helman) shows up too because the film just wasn't convoluted enough with all the bad guys already here.
This movie is 144 minutes long and I swear at least 2/3 of it is them just introducing all the bad guys that show up. I'm not sure when it will happen but at some point, you'd figure film makers would realize that just cramming more bad guys into super hero movies doesn't make them better. By the time the action finally kicks in, I was so bored waiting around for it that I didn't care all that much. The movie introduces more heroes and their origins like Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) and Scott Summers/Cyclops (Tye Sheridan) as well, drawing out the introductions that much longer.
Unfortunately even once the fighting (finally) starts, it's really nothing we haven't seen before already. Peter Maximoff/Quicksilver (Evan Peters) gets another "slow mo save everyone while being quirky about it" that we got in the last movie but we've already seen it so it wasn't nearly as entertaining. The big fight between all the good guys and all the bad guys isn't all that interesting either as we've seen the same kind of fight except better in other super hero movies at this point (also, what the hell is with Psylocke's weapon? Does it cut? It is a whip? Why does she use it to choke people when cutting with it is so much more effective?). Really, the only interesting fight in the movie is a psychic battle but by the time it finally gets around to it, I was so bored that it didn't matter.
Acting-wise, we're hit and miss here. Newcomer Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee) feels like the only new guy who works (and that might only be because he's the only one with a bit of quirk as Nightcrawler has always been a bit of a weird character). Everyone else is either one note personalities because the movie doesn't have time to focus on all of these people or they're wooden and boring. Sophie Turner especially does nothing as Jean Gray, although in her defense, we've already seen the exact story that she's going through in earlier movies so that doesn't help.
6.0/10; Apocalypse suffers the same fate as many others before it where it tries to do way too much, which causes nothing to work. It's not awful but everything it does has been done better in other super hero movies.
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So about halfway through the movie, a character makes what was probably supposed to be a humorous quip about Return of the Jedi that was probably was supposed to be tongue in cheek but became true; the third one always sucks...
Ten years has taken place since Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto (Michael Fassbender) attempted to kill a whole lot of politicians in the last movie (something everyone might now be on board with given Americas current situation! #PoliticalHumor). Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Hank McCoy/Beast (Nicholas Hoult) has gotten the School for Gifted Youngsters up and running while Raven/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) has been busy helping mutants in bad situations. Everyone seems pretty happy and life is good!
Well, it was good. Back in the Egyptian days, the All-Powerful mutant Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) was being evil until the Egyptians overthrew his rule and buried him alive in a pyramid. A group finds this tomb, waking Apocalypse up so that he can go all "Hitlers Final Solution" on the world and destroy it to rebuild it in his image. He recruits his "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" with Angel (Ben Hardy), Storm (Alexandra Shipp), Psylocke (Olivia Munn), and Magneto joining him. Oh, and Colonel Stryker (Josh Helman) shows up too because the film just wasn't convoluted enough with all the bad guys already here.
This movie is 144 minutes long and I swear at least 2/3 of it is them just introducing all the bad guys that show up. I'm not sure when it will happen but at some point, you'd figure film makers would realize that just cramming more bad guys into super hero movies doesn't make them better. By the time the action finally kicks in, I was so bored waiting around for it that I didn't care all that much. The movie introduces more heroes and their origins like Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) and Scott Summers/Cyclops (Tye Sheridan) as well, drawing out the introductions that much longer.
Unfortunately even once the fighting (finally) starts, it's really nothing we haven't seen before already. Peter Maximoff/Quicksilver (Evan Peters) gets another "slow mo save everyone while being quirky about it" that we got in the last movie but we've already seen it so it wasn't nearly as entertaining. The big fight between all the good guys and all the bad guys isn't all that interesting either as we've seen the same kind of fight except better in other super hero movies at this point (also, what the hell is with Psylocke's weapon? Does it cut? It is a whip? Why does she use it to choke people when cutting with it is so much more effective?). Really, the only interesting fight in the movie is a psychic battle but by the time it finally gets around to it, I was so bored that it didn't matter.
Acting-wise, we're hit and miss here. Newcomer Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee) feels like the only new guy who works (and that might only be because he's the only one with a bit of quirk as Nightcrawler has always been a bit of a weird character). Everyone else is either one note personalities because the movie doesn't have time to focus on all of these people or they're wooden and boring. Sophie Turner especially does nothing as Jean Gray, although in her defense, we've already seen the exact story that she's going through in earlier movies so that doesn't help.
6.0/10; Apocalypse suffers the same fate as many others before it where it tries to do way too much, which causes nothing to work. It's not awful but everything it does has been done better in other super hero movies.
Last Review: "The Purge Election Year [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.944240-tippy2k2-tells-you-what-to-think-Purge-Election-Year]"
