In a summer of filled with disappointing sequels, “X-Men: Apocalypse” might have been one of the biggest letdowns. Longtime fans weren’t particularly enthralled and audiences in general didn’t seem all that excited (the movie earned around $200 million less worldwide than “X-Men: Days Of Future Past“). So what went wrong? The Honest Trailer for the movie is here to help sort you out.
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Essentially, director Bryan Singer forgot to make a good movie. The muddled continuity-reboot storyline, which now stuck the characters in the 1980s, didn’t help matters, nor did a bland villain in Oscar Isaac‘s titular Apocalypse. And the movie went through the motions, hitting the long expected beats of the X-Men franchise —hey, there’s Wolverine again! here’s another underdeveloped Jean Grey storyline!— rather than offer anything new.
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You know what would have also helped…not using a B-movie villain as the lead character. Seriously, that needs to stop. Like it’s clear no one wants her in the lead so Fox needs to grow up (Having two underperformed films with her at the front, that’s including “Joy”) and tell Lawrence to go to hell. Get back to the X-Men stories. Singer kept talking about a sequel to the original trilogy. This should have been that. It was stupid to make “Apocalypse” set in the 1980’s when, at the end of “Days of Future Past”, it was revealed the original cast in the present are safe. Ruined any dramatic tension. They should have used elements like Jean Grey’s Phoenix curse and APolcaypse in modern time with Logan trying to make sure Jean didn’t die again, being the only one who knows what happened the last time she ignited. Simple as hell. But instead Fox had to abide by contract obligations to drag out this prequel series. Should have reduced them to flashback scenes or, at least, another parallel storyline like DOFP. It’s not a compelling story when you, literally, know who is going to live or die decades after.