X-Men: Apocalypse

X-Men: Apocalypse
Movie Blurb by Shale
June 14, 2016

Poster With All the Characters


This movie opened on May 27th but I was preoccupied with moving, setting up my new apartment utilities and getting surgery on my hand. But, as of yesterday I am back on my bike and tho my apartment is still not entirely put together, I have been living in it for two weeks so I biked down to Regal Cinema today to see a matinee. Tho this little blurb is almost 3 weeks late, making it moot since all the ppl who are gonna see this movie likely already have, I'll just do a quick take on what I thot of it.

The movie opens in ancient Egypt, thousands of years ago where a mutant En Sabah Nur (Oscar Isaac) and his four minions are attempting to gain more power when the ppl rise up and bury them under a pyramid. He gets unearthed in the 1980s and encounters the fragmented X-Men of that period.

Professor Xavier (James McAvoy) is running his school for gifted children with Hank McCoy (Nicholas Hoult) and one of his students Jean Grey (Sophie Turner). Magneto (Michael Fassbender) is on the lam, living under an assumed name in Poland working in a steel mill. Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) is out rescuing and teaming up with Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and Scott Summers (Tye Sheridan) is just coming into his Cyclops powers and is brot blindfolded to Professor Xavier's school by his brother Alex Summers (Lucas Till). Oh, and CIA Agent Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) is back, still oblivious to her first encounter with the Charles Xavier and the X-Men.

That should bring you up to date on the X-men who now must deal with the very powerful En Sabah Nur, henceforth known as Apocalypse. There is also an origin story of Ororo Munroe or Storm (Alexandra Shipp) who is discovered by Apocalypse.

Needless to say there will be stunning earth altering battles between these powerful mutants and alliances, as before will change. In fact, the only problem I had with this movie, more so than the last one was the deviation from canon of the other X-Men movies. Of course X-Men: Days of Future Past was a time altering movie and as I mentioned in that blurb:

"The temporal paradox seemed to be satisfied - no obvious flaws that I caught. There may have been some canon discrepancies with Wolverine & Col. Stryker in the Vietnam War as seen in X-Men: Origins Wolverine but you can't expect everything in a storyline to fall in place after 6 movies."

I can understand the discrepancies if we are dealing with an alternate timeline, but we've already seen the first meeting of Prof. Xavier with Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Kurt Wagner and Logan in previous movies that differ from this one.

Jean, Nightcrawler & Scott


Only 48% of the aggregate critics at Rotten Tomatoes liked this movie but like me, 73% of audiences liked it. I also liked the way the had Stan Lee's cameo with his wife Joanie. And this movie has the end-credit teaser trailer totally at the end of the credits so have faith and wait for the 10 minutes of scrolling text to pass. The music is nice while waiting.