Friday, 17 June 2016

X-Men:Apocalypse-3 Ups and Downs




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!



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