One of the most powerful mutants to ever have lived is trapped for thousands of years, only to awaken in the year 1983. After he does, Apocalypse looks upon the world and is angered by how the weak have taken over the planet and worship "false Gods". Having lived with immeasurable power for so long, he and his followers viewed him as a God and he intends to take back that title. Apocalypse recruits 4 powerful mutants to help in his quest. World domination is not in the cards with the X-Men, so the young students of Professor Xavier's School for the Gifted led by Hank McCoy, Moira Mac Taggert and Mystique take up the battle for the Earth.
Cast
- James McAvoy as Professor Charles Xavier
- Michael Fassbender as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
- Jennifer Lawrence as Raven / Mystique
- Oscar Isaac as En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse
- Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy / Beast
- Rose Byrne as Moira MacTaggert
- Tye Sheridan as Scott Summers / Cyclops
- Sophie Turner as Jean Grey
- Alexandra Shipp as Ororo Munroe / Storm
- Olivia Munn as Psylocke
- Lucas Till as Alex Summers / Havok
- Evan Peters as Peter Maximoff / Quicksilver
- Kodi Smit-McPhee as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
- Josh Helman as Colonel William Stryker
- Ben Hardy as Angel
- Lana Condor as Jubilee
This is certainly not the "Hey, let's go see a movie" type of choice to make this Summer. If you haven't been following along with the prior X-men movies, you may be a little lost. Comic book fans will enjoy seeing this storyline unfold on the big screen. I also think if you were a fan of "Stargate" (the movie....not the TV show) you will find parallels that are interesting.
Phantom Thoughts
I have one word to describe this movie...............blue.
Holy Shit! I think they pulled out every blue character in the Marvel universe for this one! Mystique, Beast, Apocalypse, Nightcrawler.....even Professor X donned his famous blue suit at the end of the film! The only one they passed on (and I have no idea why....at this point, why not?) was Angel. With his metal wings, he was more similar to "Archangel" who had blue skin in the comics. They DID give him a blue light when he got those new wings. Maybe as a nod to the character.
OK. Let's put that aside for a moment. Something else that has made it's way around the internet is how similar Apocalypse looked to Ivan Ooze in the old TMNT movie. I, on the other hand, couldn't help but notice a similarity to a DIFFERENT Marvel villain in a more recent past:
Ronin from Guardians of the Galaxy was also Hell bent on becoming God-like with power, wanted vengeance on a World that he felt superior to....oh yeah.....he was also blue.
This was also the second Marvel movie to reference Star Wars in as many months. But this reference wasn't as appreciated by the Phantom as the one first brought up by Spidey in "Captain America: Civil War". Here we find some young X-men exiting the movie "Return of the Jedi", where a comment is made that "....the third one is always the worst." In as much as this is a shot at the Holy Trilogy for Star Wars fans, it was actually meant as a reference to "X-Men Last Stand" which was criticized by many of it's fans. But someone should have reminded these youngsters that "Apocalypse" is the third movie for THESE X-men as well.
It has to be noted as well, that I have seen ALL the X-men movies (including the Wolverine stand alones and Deadpool) and I have to say that even I got a bit confused on the sequence of events. Between jumping around in time and the new timelines in "Days of Future Past", I don't know what I'm watching anymore. I think Deadpool said it best:
But was it a total disaster? No. Of course not. I'll tell you what saved it: Quicksilver. Played marvelously by Evan Peters, the scene in which (SPOILERS) Quicksilver saves almost everyone in Charles Xavier's Mansion as it is blowing up was brilliant. And seeing as that whole thing took 4 months to film, using 3-D Phantom cameras (not named after yours truly, but I'll take credit) traveling at near 90 mph, while shooting at 3100 frames per second, the effort paid off immensely.
A few good parts in this one was just out weighed by the bad and confusing. It makes me happy that this arc is over. I just hope they don't try and drag it out by making more. I'm kinda done with the X-men.
Until next time, see you in the center seat.
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