Storyline
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
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Cast
Michael Fassbender, Zeljko Ivanek, Stan Lee, James McAvoy, John Ottman, Hugh Jackman, Evan Peters, Desmond Campbell, Jennifer Lawrence, Rose Byrne, Nicholas Hoult, Lucas Till, Monique Ganderton, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Oscar Isaac, Olivia Munn, Joe Cobden, Fraser Aitcheson, Conrad Coates, Tye Sheridan, Joanne Boland, Ally Sheedy, John Bourgeois, Alexandra Shipp, Manuel Tadros, Rochelle Okoye, Josh Helman, Chris Cavener, Tómas Lemarquis, Stephen Bogaert, Carolina Bartczak, Anthony Konechny, Sophie Turner, Dan Lett, Philippe Hartmann, Zehra Leverman, Jason Deline, Shawn Campbell, Manuel Sinor, Ben Hardy, Lana Condor, Warren Scherer, Abdulla Hamam, Hesham Hammoud, Antonio Daniel Hidalgo, Al Maini, Berdj Garabedian, Emma Elle Paterson, Gustave Ouimet, Lukas Penar, Ryan Hollyman, Nabeel El Khafif, Abanoub Andraous, Aladeen Tawfeek, T. J. McGibbon, Davide Chiazzese, Sebastian Naskrent, Boris Sichon, Martin Skorek, Kamil Orzechowski, Michael Terlecki, Ahmed Osman, Ziad Ghanem, Moataz Fathi, James Loye, Herb Luft, Joan Lee, Adrian G. Griffiths, Henry Hallowell, Danielle Dury, Naomi Frenette, Aj Risi, Raphaël Dury, Ian Rosenberg, Erika Heather Mergl, Tauntaun, Mary-Piper Gaudet, Josh Madryga, Scott Cook, Allen Keng, Tally Rodin, Francis Limoges, Tsu-Ching Yu, Karl Walcott, Ian Geldart, Linda Joyce Nourse, Christopher B. MacCabe, Ronald Tremblay, Joseph Bellerose, Sebastien Teller, Alexander Peganov, Simon Therrien, Patrice Martre, James Malloch, Vladimir Alexis
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Reviews
70
The X-Men adventures keep getting bigger, but Singer works extremely hard to ensure that, even when they’re not always better, they continue to thrill sufficiently.
67
Apocalypse, for all its faults, has the audacity to make the MCU look small, and the conviction to make the DCU — if there even is such a thing — look foolish for confusing self-seriousness with gravity. If only these characters were allowed to be as complex as the ideas they fight for, Apocalypse could have represented a new beginning for superhero cinema.
63
Slant Magazine
The issue with X-Men: Apocalypse is that Bryan Singer suggests so many possible directions to go in and still chooses the least interesting one.
60
The idea of an apocalypse means every dial has to be turned up to 11 and this film certainly provides bangs for your buck, although there is less space for the surreal strangeness of the X-Men to breathe, less dialogue interest, and they do not have the looser, wittier joy of the Avengers. But the more playful episodes with Cyclops and Quicksilver are welcome and everything hangs together.
50
Apocalypse feels like a confused, kitchen-sink mess with a half dozen too many characters, a villain who amounts to a big blue nothing, and a narrative that’s so choppy and poorly cut together that it feels like you’re watching a flipbook instead of a movie.
