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I shouldn’t be surprised that Storm is downplayed in Apocalypse, in the Singer directed X-Men (2000) Halle Barry’s Storm was essentially an ornamental beauty queen who creates clouds when prompted. She has a very internal change of heart by the end of the film. Can we give it a rest Singer? I get it, Professor X and Magneto share a unique friendship but maybe this film could have dealt with a crisis faced by a new mutant or given the demi-god Apocalypse some fearsome gravitas.įor example, Storm is Apocalypse’s right hand, his first horseman and we don’t ever delve into the tale of how a future leader of the X-Men started off as a supporter of an indestructible madman whose end goal was to destroy the world as we know it and re-establish mutants as the ruling class.
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This movie isn’t about the X-Men taking on one of the most epic, nightmare inducing villains in the franchise’s canon it’s about how Magneto constantly needs redemption and how Professor X will always be there for him. Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) uncovers the rise of an ancient all powerful mutant it spurs the team to reunite to save the world – wait no, that’s not true. Picking up 10 years after the events of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) is an unwilling hero to young mutants, Professor X (James McAvoy) and Hank McCoy (Nicholas Hoult) run a thriving school for “gifted” youngsters, and Erik (Magneto) lives in exile with his wife and young child, hiding his mutant powers. Instead of bringing a new chapter to the franchise director Bryan Singer and writer/producer Simon Kinberg decide to beat an old horse, making the focus of the film the relationship between Professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and his best frienemy Magneto (Michael Fassbender). Despite some truly impressive set pieces, including an opening sequence that shows the mega mutant Apocalypse’s (Oscar Isaac) fall in ancient Egypt, the film is plagued by plot holes and an inability to develop new characters. Set in the 80s it’s the third to feature the younger cast first introduced in the 60s set X-Men: First Class (2011) and further develops the origins of Marvel’s mutant superhero team, the X-Men. X-Men: Apocalypse is the ninth film in the X-Men universe.