To that end, he recruits four horsemen (of the Apocalypse) and sets about bringing ruin upon the Earth. His godlike power gives him the ability to reshape the Earth in his image, and he wants to recreate it as a place where only the strong survive. Thanks to the events of Days of Future Past, we now have another Quicksilver sce-I mean Apocalypse, the legendary mutant forebearer of ancient Egypt has awoken. Apocalypse moves between treading water and treading boring nonsense. There’s some other stuff, but so many of the good decisions in these movies get bogged down by the boneheaded, tone-deaf, and uninspired.Īnd unfortunately, none of the good stuff is on display here. Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart are phenomenal playing off one another when they actually get the chance to, and it’s terribly disappointing they didn’t get more opportunities to. Hugh Jackman was a really good choice for the role.
Framing mutants as a persecuted minority was the original intent of the series, so running with a gay youth theme all the way back in 1999 (seriously this started 1 8 years ago now) was a seriously great move (rewatch the scene in X2 where Bobby “comes out” to his parents if you don’t believe me). They have done some things right, though.
The problems stem from too many characters left undeveloped, uninteresting action, overly complicated plots, taking themselves waaaay too seriously, and coasting on the charisma of one character that rhymes with Schmulverine and the actor whose name rhymes with Schmugh Schmackman. Some of them have been good, some of them have been downright bad, but none of them have ever really hit that high mark you might find in the Marvel/Disney cinematic universe. X-Men: Apocalypse is the culmination of all the wrong-headed moves that have kept the X-Men movies from becoming more than 2nd string superhero movies.
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