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X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

Directed by Bryan Singer

Science Fiction | Action | Thriller

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Overview

After the re-emergence of the world’s first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.

Rated PG-13 | Length 144 minutes

Actors

James McAvoy | Michael Fassbender | Jennifer Lawrence | Nicholas Hoult | Oscar Isaac | Rose Byrne | Evan Peters | Josh Helman | Sophie Turner | Tye Sheridan | Lucas Till | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Ben Hardy | Alexandra Shipp | Lana Condor | Olivia Munn | Warren Scherer | Rochelle Okoye | Monique Ganderton | Fraser Aitcheson | Abdulla Hamam | Hesham Hammoud | Antonio Daniel Hidalgo | Al Maini | Berdj Garabedian | Ally Sheedy | Anthony Konechny | Emma Elle Paterson | Manuel Sinor | Gustave Ouimet | Lukas Penar | Ryan Hollyman | Joanne Boland | Nabeel El Khafif | Manuel Tadros | Abanoub Andraous | Aladeen Tawfeek | Carolina Bartczak | T.J. McGibbon | Davide Chiazzese | Sebastian Naskrent | Boris Sichon | Martin Skorek | Kamil Orzechowski | Michael Terlecki | Ahmed Osman | Ziad Ghanem | Moataz Fathi | Tómas Lemarquis | James Loye | Zehra Leverman | Herb Luft | Stan Lee | Joan Lee | Stephen Bogaert | John Bourgeois | Conrad Coates | Dan Lett | Adrian G. Griffiths | Shawn Campbell | Joe Cobden | Henry Hallowell | Danielle Dury | Naomi Frenette | Aj Risi | Raphaël Dury | Ian Rosenberg | Erika Heather Mergl | Mary-Piper Gaudet | Josh Madryga | Scott Cook | Allen Keng | Tally Rodin | Francis Limoges | Tsu-Ching Yu | Karl Walcott | Desmond Campbell | Ian Geldart | John Ottman | Linda Joyce Nourse | Zeljko Ivanek | Christopher B. MacCabe | Chris Cavener | Ronald Tremblay | Joseph Bellerose | Philippe Hartmann | Sebastien Teller | Alexander Peganov | Simon Therrien | Patrice Martre | James Malloch | Hugh Jackman | Vladimir Alexis | Jason Deline

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Viewing Notes

Enjoyed this quite a bit, more than I expected given the shitty early reviews and WOM. Maybe my expectations were appropriately set going into it? Regardless, I found the emotional beats to be effective and on occasion had me in tears. Dusty tears not crying, mind you. I like the role given to Jennifer Lawrence as the reluctant leader. Magneto is just great as the conflicted murderer. New cast is fun for the most part. Also like how Wolverine is handled and not the focus of the film.

Not crazy about the timeline adjustments or making the movie so beholden to that 1983 year. Probably the dumbest decision was to make this 10 years later yet not have anyone age. This could’ve easily been set a couple years after DOFP and been fine.

I’ll have to read some of the negative reviews to get a idea of why this movie was hated so much by critics. Agree it doesn’t have the charm of the last two movies (this one is hella more dire in tone) but I’m glad they gave plenty of character beats to Quicksilver and Nightcrawler in addition to the stars.

I’d love to see this movie again but it’s so fucking long! The length didn’t bother me like it has for others but it’s a commitment to sit through again. Oddly I have yet to revisit the previous two films despite mostly liking them.

I wish they had given Jubilee more to do and at least introduced her properly.

I’m pretty sure this superhero movie has the highest death toll of all superhero movies.

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