X-Men: Apocalypse has surprised its fans this year in many
ways. Many new mutants were introduced .Believe me, I am X-Men’s die heart fan
and I been watching it’s series for a long time. Somehow, I wasn’t very
satisfied with X Men’s latest sequel. I must say it had adequate action and
awesome graphics in it but no, it wasn’t the best movie of X-Men so far. Yet,calling
it a “disappointing” movie isn’t the accurate description therefore I decided
to make the list of its Ups and Downs.
List of its Ups:
1)
Phoenix Force (OH, Big Spoiler ahead!)
If you have seen X-Men Apocalypse, you will
know what happens in its end. Professor
Xavier tells Jean to unleash her power therefore phoenix force inside Jean gets
revealed and she destroys Apocalypse. In my opinion, was the best scene of the
movie because, after watching this, we can imagine about Jean extraordinary
powers that we will see in next films. I mean “Wow” the scene was extraordinary,
indeed. Honestly, this was not expected of Jean in the end.
2) Quicksilver’s
Scene!
I mean that scene made the movie! It was funny and it made
me admire Quicksilver more. His abilities were marvelously showed. This scene
was just perfect! The way he was running to the way he was giving expressions
to different things children were doing was mind-blowing. Not forgetting the graphics which were just
very real.
3) Sophie Turner as
Jean Grey!
Before watching the latest X-Men sequel, I thought that the
casting of Sophie Turner as Jean Grey wouldn’t work because I thought her Game
of Thrones’ Sansa Stark-ish-ness would disrupt the illusion of her being Jean
Grey. Guess what, people? I was wrong! Sophie Turner had the talent to optimize
Jean’s character. Yet, she did that perfectly. She suited perfectly in her role as the quiet,
shy girl who, herself is scared of her powers.
Downs:
1) Lack of Emotions and
Details
After watching exquisite plot of X-Men: Days of Future Past,
I thought that its sequel would have more emotions than it because, you know, A
Mutant God, who appears to be the most powerful of them all, has evil plans of
cleansing the earth to the strongest but believe me, I was wrong. I mean, there
were no or very less emotions. Emotions didn’t reach us like they did in DOFP. (Please don’t tell me you don’t know what DOFP
IS: p) Furthermore, we didn’t know about the Apocalypse’s powers at all. I
mean, not everyone has read the comic therefore audience deserves to be fully
informed about the powers of their villain. Was he a telepath? No, because he kept
on asking the horseman about other mutants, whom he would imbue with the power
of Horseman. Come On!!! He is the most powerful of them all. In addition, we didn’t
know what happened in the past 10 years.
2) Unbelievable or
Just DUMB Things
If you take a look at the movies of X-Men before Apocalypse,
there were many wow and realistic things happening in them but this time Bryan Singer
failed to make his audience “Wow”.Some of you might say that “Come On! It’s a
fiction movie” but my friend, it is happening in a real world. We should see
people dying if a mutant god’s intention is to destroy the whole world. The thing
that amazed me by a lot was the arrival of William Stryker’s helicopters before
fire trucks. Okay, there might be any explanation for that but why was the
villain called Apocalypse, although his name was En Sabah Nur???In Addition,
why was Agent McTaggert the first one to lift the rug off the entrance of the
place where En Sabah Nur’s tomb was placed? Also, If Egyptians or People of Cairo
knew about Apocalypse (I guess), why where they keeping him in the place with
non-proper entrance and a place where intruders (with weapons) could easily
enter? I mean Agent McTaggert just
simply dashed into that place where there was a Mutant God.
3) Wolverine Cameo
I hate to write this but Wolverine’s cameo in Apocalypse
seriously disappointed me. We all are great fans of his’ and were super excited
to see him in Apocalypse, but his cameo was just unsatisfactory. I mean he came,
did some fighting and just ran off like that. I know and I understand, Bryan
Singer wanted to show his behavior after being caged like an animal for such a
long time but come on! It seemed as if this cameo was forcibly put in this
movie.
The movie had some awesome moments and graphics but as X-Men’s Fans “some” awesome moments and super
advanced graphics aren’t enough to satisfy us. The movie was good but it just
wasn’t good enough!
