Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) by Winston S — 03 Jun 2017

I was expecting to have hated it and I tried to look for things but I couldn't. The franchise still has flaws but from a movie goer's perspective and not as an X-men comic fan this was your typical blockbuster action movie and if you're going to fault it for that then you might as well fault the Avengers movies for the same. It was no more sophisticated than Civil War but no less than that Age of Ultron.

I thought the performances from the new cast were all adequate for such a young cast and I would really love to see more of them because they felt like the old hopeful X-men I grew up with. Apocalypse despite what critics said was formidable and epically powerful. Ok they could have probably done more with those powers visually but they might have made him feel too powerful.

Don't get me wrong I would love for the X-men to revert back to marvel because as where we stand this isn't the closest adaptation from the comics we can get and to me this version of the X-men is like what New 52 is to the DC continuity a hot mess of good and bad elements that you just want to fix.

I think this movie was actually the best of the rebooted X-men franchise and bridges this trilogy nicely with the original films prior to the rebooting.

I know people will always hate on the franchise because of that, its in our fanboy nature but I have to honestly give credits where credit is due and rate this movie a B-, 8/10 and say just see it for yourself.