Spoiler alert!
I just saw X-men Apocalypse and, although I didn't like it as well as the last one, it still had some good points about it.
Anyway, before I begin my review, I did have one question....
In the helicopter scene where the conscious group of new X-men were in the back via the power-dampening area. We didn't get to see how they got out of there and started running loose for their rescue mission. I mean, if their powers didn't work, then Jean could no longer hide them if the back was opened and they were still in there, am I right? And Kurt wouldn't have been able to teleport them as soon as they landed, and so on and so forth. Did I somehow miss something?
Well, enough of that. On with my review.
Although perhaps a little too whiny/scared and uncertain, the new teens (Jean and Scott mainly) did a pretty good job at portraying their teen angst-filled characters. I especially liked the re-introduction of Nightcrawler, even though it completely contradicts the 2nd movie's timeline. (Yes, I realize it was altered via Wolverine in the last movie, yada yada yada) However, with that said, I still don't think he did as good of an acting job as the adult Nightcrawler in X-men 2.
Now, as for Apocalypse, I don't know...perhaps it's just me, but although he was an overly confident a-hole like he was supposed to be, for some odd reason (Maybe it was his makeup job) I wasn't really as threatened by him visually as I feel I should have been.
The new Storm...hmmm....okay I suppose....but still no more impressed with her than I was the adult version. They need to develop a way to go beyond just wind and lighting and crank it up a few notches--perhaps weather combos or something--who knows?
Hmm..what else? Seeing Quicksilver again was good. A definitely welcomed addition to the new roster.
Angel? Not impressed. Psylocke? A little more threatening, but I just couldn't connect with that character for some reason. Her personality was basically flatline. Okay fighting skills, but I've seen better.
Oh, Moira McTaggert returned but, alas, her memory wasn't restored until the end of the movie. That basically meant her character was the most uninteresting and seemingly clueless of the bunch. I loved her in the last one, but this one, well...not so much.
As for the ending, and this is a major spoiler alert so be warned...well.......I'd think that if Jean Grey was so powerful she could defeat Apocalypse, that Apocalypse would have been able to sense that and would have tried to recruit HER or tried to kill her in the beginning of the movie, no?
Oh, and one last thing. In one scene Mystique said that her and Hank were the last two left from the original group. Did we EVER find out what happened to Banshee? Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the last movie I don't recall Mystique seeing his picture in the mutant cadaver dossier she was looking through. Yes? No? Or maybe I just missed it.
Jonathon Jones
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