When the action does come, it is a special effects spectacle of mutant powers on display where everyone.pretty much stands around shooting things at each other. Divisive might be the best word to describe this movie. Those who can appreciate a slow build up would love this while those who need their immediate action fix would be left disappointed. The fresh elements of course add new facets to a film which could have otherwise been a complete bore, thanks to the slow burn nature of the plot which mostly sees both good guys and bad guys gathering their key players for the final showdown. The familiar elements gives us a sense of the revolving nature of conflict, that history repeats despite the best intentions. Call it homage or call it cliché, I feel that this story manages to toe the line between familiar and fresh. Powerful mutant with delusions of godhood and a gang of loyal followers is Apocalypse this time replacing magneto's role in the first 3 xmen movies. Xavier is once again captured and the X-men's home base is compromised, again like X-MEN 2. Mystique replaces wolverine as the badass wanderer who is thrown into a leadership position to guide our young loners. Scott jean and Kurt are the inexperienced loners who have to work together to overcome their challenges, a little like pyro, Bobby drake (ice man) and kitty pryde (shadow cat) in X-men 2. Eric is the grief stricken blood knight who goes evil with vengeance when tragedy strikes, again.
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So familiar in fact that the whole movie is a pastiche of plot points taken from past xmen movies. Our characters are all reduced to two dimensional archetypes each with familiar story arcs. It is very simple and it is in its simplicity that it loses out on the richness of character than past xmen movies had.
Fortunately or unfortunately it does not require much inferring or complex thinking to follow the story.
Thankfully the masterful execution of dialogue and acting chops saves this film from sinking into mediocrity. The third in this "new trilogy" that began with X-MEN FIRST CLASS, the franchise reached its high point in the epic X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST but now tips back down to a rather typical tale of good vs evil intertwined with the usual hero's journey. X- MEN APOCALYPSE brings to mind some Japanese anime and a yearning for the better X- men movies of the past. The word "apocalypse" brings to mind an end-of-the world event of biblical proportions.
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