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Movie Review – X-Men: Apocalypse
Before watching this, I did something I’ve long told myself not to do. I read the reviews for X-Men: Apocalypse beforehand.
This turned out to be a good thing. The lukewarm reviews made me moderate my expectations. They also reminded me how the last movie in trilogies is often the worst. In the end, I quite enjoyed X-Men: Apocalypse. Enough for me to consider re-watching it again.
I mean, yeah, This was flawed. A “what?!?!?” plot, rather uninvolved acting by the returning leads, and completely ineffective destruction scenes. But so did all the X-Men animated series I’ve watched over the years. In fact, the movie ended very much like an extended story arc from those series too, with a classic X-Men god device saving the day.* Being a much-hyped, big budget blockbuster feature, one could condemn this as a major let-down. But given I was willing to follow the animated episodes religiously for months, each time in a measly chunk of 20 minutes, what reason did I have to grouch about 143 minutes of classic X-Men fracas? Unimpressive death scenes, poor CGI efforts, lacking character developments, or not.
One other thing. With or without reading other reviews, I didn’t expect this to be on the same level as Days of Future Past. The previous movie simply had too many advantages. While it was the second instalment in the trilogy, Days actually had SIX movies leading up to it. (The first trilogy, the two Wolvie movies, and First Class) Effective storytelling was so easy for it; simply seeing Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan together again on screen was a joy. X-Men: Apocalypse enjoyed no such advantages. Neither did it had substantial plot branches to build on to. The only thing it could do was to resort to standard action storytelling. OTP enemy. Lots of colourful characters. Bang. Over and out of the cinema. (And to the toilet) Again, would be a disappointment to some. But for me, I don’t see what else I should have expected.
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