X-Men: Apocalypse

X-Men: Apocalypse is the next X-Men film in the huge X-men film franchise. This is also the 4th film headed by Bryan Singer. The cast is massive everyone returns to there roles Micheal Fassbender, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, and Nicholas Hoult. This film also has the return of fan favorite characters with new actors. We have Sophie Turner playing Jean Grey, Tye Sheridan as Cyclops, and Alexandra Shipp as Storm. Probably the biggest cast of characters in a X-Men film yet and still isn't all of the people in this film. The film follows the rise of the villain Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) and his plans to of course destroy the world and it is up to our heroes to stop him.

So this is the third time for some of these actors to play these characters. One actor of the bunch stuck out the most to me as just really understanding and owning his character. This really should have been Micheal Fassbender's film. He steals every scene he his in and some of the heartache that this character goes thought just cements him in this role. No one really turns in a bad performance in the film and Singer has always been able to pull out great performances from his actors. Singer also did a great job with direction of this script because it is a huge story. Clocking in at just around the two and a half hour mark. We have a lot of shots that give us that epic scope that this film was going for. We get a lot of great action also in the later half of the film. It does what the summer blockbusters are own for doing. His tone is perfect for the film and Singer just knows this world that he created for these characters.

Singer did what he could do with this script. I do think the film is fair to long but it's to no fault of  the directors. He was able to switch from each story very smooth and balanced it for the most part very well, but when it comes down to it the film just has to much to do. We have the origin stories of  around seven characters in this film. That is a lot. Most of the origin stories get about a second of screen time but seven is just to much. One of those origin stories just plainly didn't need to be in the film. It's great to see this character in the film, but just slows  the film down. Apocalypse was a great villain, but with including the arc about Magneto (Fassender) makes you think that this film should have been about him more. Plus you could still do the intro of characters and we didn't need another lengthy origin story for Apocalypse. Overall, I think this is the worst of the Singer helmed X-Men film. Is it better then Origins and last stand? Yes, but not by much.

RATING
2 out of 4 Ticket Stubs.