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Even Jennifer Lawrence, arguably the biggest female star on Earth, has almost nothing to do beyond a few brief reunion moments and an extended bout of climactic peril. McAvoy is fun in the early scenes but soon becomes an exposition machine and a non-entity in the action. The young kids (Jean, Scott, Jubilee, etc.) get almost no time to bond or play with their powers.
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There is a reason why we keep seeing that “Psylocke slices a car in half with a sword” shot in all of the later X-Men: Apocalypse trailers and TV spots. The other three “horseman” (Psylocke, Storm, and Ben Hardy’s Angel) are walking action figures, with no character development and no substantive screen time. That's impressive because (as you might guess) said family quickly gets fridged so Erik can “have an angry” and willingly join Apocalypse’s team. Magneto’s new wife and daughter (this one takes place in 1983, ten years after Days of Future Past) get more dialogue than Storm (Alexandra Shipp) and Psylocke (Olivia Munn) combined.
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You can imagine my horror when I realized that this sixth team X-Men film was again going to revolve partially around Magneto (Fassbender, sadly phoning it in) lifting stuff for evil and Charles (McAvoy, surprisingly phoning it in) and his X-Men trying to get their former friend to stop lifting stuff for evil. It’s no secret that I think the reliance on Magneto (be he Ian McKellen or Michael Fassbender) as a source of (the same) conflict or (the same sort of) villainy has been this franchise’s long-form Achilles’ Heel. But then we come to the first confrontation with Xavier and Apocalypse, and you realize that the film is almost over.
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We cut between “meet the new kids” moments (including a Cyclops origin that feels like the X-Men prologue segment we never got back in 2000), some “catch up with old friends and enemies” beats (like Jennifer Lawrence’s Raven rescuing Nightcrawler from a cage match), and our new villain Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) slowly and deliberating recruiting each of his four “horsemen.” For a reel or two, it looks like Bryan Singer, Simon Kinberg, and friends are really going to give us a “disaster movie” in the mold of an X-Men adventure.
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X-Men: The Last Stand is X2: X-Men United compared to X-Men: Apocalypse.Īfter a promising prehistoric prologue that seems to promise a certain fantastical one-upmanship for this generally grounded franchise, the film offers a series of introductory table-setting scenes for what turns out to be the vast majority of its running time. It is the nadir of the franchise, determined to make you apologize for every mean thing you’ve ever said about Brett Ratner’s rushed X-Men trilogy capper a decade ago. It is a lifeless and hollow shell of a picture, lacking exciting action, strong character interplay, or compelling storytelling. Bryan Singer’s would-be trilogy capper is a shocking miss. It’s intended as a jab at X-Men: The Last Stand, but it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The participants discuss “ Empire Strikes Back was better” versus “ Star Wars started it all” before coming to a consensus that the third films always stink.
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There is a scene in the 80’s set X-Men: Apocalypse where a young Jean Grey ( Sophie Turner) and Scott Summers (Tye Sheridan) exit a showing of Return of the Jedi and argue the merits of the various Star Wars films.