The mark of good characterization is in the way characters talk about each other, and suffice to say Apocalypse spends the entire movie talking about himself. Why should I care about Cyclops having problems at school if we never actually get to see him in his element there? Why should I care about Angel having his wing torn in his fight with Nightcrawler if he immediately joins up with Apocalypse anyway? In fact, why does Apocalypse choose Angel in the first place? In the comics he was a horseman at one point, but if Apocalypse is all about the strong surviving and Darwinism then from the outset Angel was not a superior choice, just being a guy who has wings in a world where there are telekinetics and people who can control fire.ДЇor another thing, Apocalypse himself is such an overpowered villain that the X-MenвЂ™s only lucky break is that heвЂ™s all ego and no intelligence. ItвЂ™s so hard to get invested in anything thatвЂ™s happening because this movie layers bizarre character choices on top of dull character moments. Also, Mystique is here and sheвЂ™s an important character because Jennifer Lawrence is too popular to let go from this series.ДЄs I stated above, too many characters spread too thin. That is if Charles Xavier and his crew of misfit teenagers canвЂ™t stop him first. To that end, he recruits four horsemen (of the Apocalypse) and sets about bringing ruin upon the Earth. His godlike power gives him the ability to reshape the Earth in his image, and he wants to recreate it as a place where only the strong survive. Thanks to the events of Days of Future Past, we now have another Quicksilver sce-I mean Apocalypse, the legendary mutant forebearer of ancient Egypt has awoken. Apocalypse moves between treading water and treading boring nonsense.

ThereвЂ™s some other stuff, but so many of the good decisions in these movies get bogged down by the boneheaded, tone-deaf, and uninspired.ДЄnd unfortunately, none of the good stuff is on display here. Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart are phenomenal playing off one another when they actually get the chance to, and itвЂ™s terribly disappointing they didnвЂ™t get more opportunities to. Hugh Jackman was a really good choice for the role. Framing mutants as a persecuted minority was the original intent of the series, so running with a gay youth theme all the way back in 1999 (seriously this started 1 8 years ago now) was a seriously great move (rewatch the scene in X2 where Bobby вЂњcomes outвЂќ to his parents if you donвЂ™t believe me). They have done some things right, though. The problems stem from too many characters left undeveloped, uninteresting action, overly complicated plots, taking themselves waaaay too seriously, and coasting on the charisma of one character that rhymes with Schmulverine and the actor whose name rhymes with Schmugh Schmackman. Some of them have been good, some of them have been downright bad, but none of them have ever really hit that high mark you might find in the Marvel/Disney cinematic universe. X-Men: Apocalypse is the culmination of all the wrong-headed moves that have kept the X-Men movies from becoming more than 2nd string superhero movies.

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