Finished watching X-Men: Apocalypse, directed by Bryan Singer and staring Oscar Isaac, Tye Sheridan, Lucas Till, James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Alexandra Shipp, Ben Hardy, Olivia Munn, Michael Fassbender, Evan Peters and Hugh Jackman. The film opens up with the origins of Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) in ancient Egypt as he is betrayed by his followers and is buried alive during a ritual that would transfer his consciousness into a new body. Flash forward to 1983 and teenager Scott Summers (Tye Sheridan) discovers his mutant powers while at school, which leads to his brother Alex (Lucas Till) taking him to professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) school, that is now up and running again with the help of Hank McCoy (Nicholas Hoult). Meanwhile over in Egypt CIA agent Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) accidentally resurrects Apocalypse when she stumbles onto a group of people praying to him as a large artefact begins to activate by the sunlight at the entrance of the cavern. With Apocalypse now awakened he sets out to lead a new group of horsemen which take the form of Storm (Alexandra Shipp), Angel (Ben Hardy), Psylocke (Olivia Munn) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender). Overall this was a good film as it brings an end to this chapter of the franchise on a nice note. Quicksilver (Evan Peters) has some amazing scenes within the film thanks to not one but two jaw dropping slow motion scenes. While the character himself is primarily used more for comic relief during the course of the film. Most of the character development is centred around Magneto's character as he goes from being a family man with a wife and daughter to becoming a horseman of Apocalypse which is great. While the action scene between Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and the soldiers in Weapon X is one of the best fight scenes in the film even with parts of it being off scene due to the films age rating leaves little to the imagination in how Wolverine takes out the soldiers thanks to the screams and the blood splattering everywhere. What does let the film down is the fact that the Deadpool film came out before this which showed that 20th Century Fox was able to make a very comic book superhero film while this does feel like more of the same that Fox has used within its X-Men franchise while feels like they went a step backwards with this film even though it does looks like the filmmakers have tried in parts. 7.5/10.
Friday, 27 May 2016
X-Men: Apocalypse Film Review
Finished watching X-Men: Apocalypse, directed by Bryan Singer and staring Oscar Isaac, Tye Sheridan, Lucas Till, James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Alexandra Shipp, Ben Hardy, Olivia Munn, Michael Fassbender, Evan Peters and Hugh Jackman. The film opens up with the origins of Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) in ancient Egypt as he is betrayed by his followers and is buried alive during a ritual that would transfer his consciousness into a new body. Flash forward to 1983 and teenager Scott Summers (Tye Sheridan) discovers his mutant powers while at school, which leads to his brother Alex (Lucas Till) taking him to professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) school, that is now up and running again with the help of Hank McCoy (Nicholas Hoult). Meanwhile over in Egypt CIA agent Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) accidentally resurrects Apocalypse when she stumbles onto a group of people praying to him as a large artefact begins to activate by the sunlight at the entrance of the cavern. With Apocalypse now awakened he sets out to lead a new group of horsemen which take the form of Storm (Alexandra Shipp), Angel (Ben Hardy), Psylocke (Olivia Munn) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender). Overall this was a good film as it brings an end to this chapter of the franchise on a nice note. Quicksilver (Evan Peters) has some amazing scenes within the film thanks to not one but two jaw dropping slow motion scenes. While the character himself is primarily used more for comic relief during the course of the film. Most of the character development is centred around Magneto's character as he goes from being a family man with a wife and daughter to becoming a horseman of Apocalypse which is great. While the action scene between Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and the soldiers in Weapon X is one of the best fight scenes in the film even with parts of it being off scene due to the films age rating leaves little to the imagination in how Wolverine takes out the soldiers thanks to the screams and the blood splattering everywhere. What does let the film down is the fact that the Deadpool film came out before this which showed that 20th Century Fox was able to make a very comic book superhero film while this does feel like more of the same that Fox has used within its X-Men franchise while feels like they went a step backwards with this film even though it does looks like the filmmakers have tried in parts. 7.5/10.
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