The biggest X-Men movie yet doesn’t scrimp on carnage, but lacks the heft of Singer’s previous instalments. Slightly naff baddie too.
The latest X-Men prequel goes back to the 1980s, but the now-regulation destruction is beginning to eclipse the series’ unique strangeness.
X-Men Apocalypse is very rousing fare even if it does leave a mind-boggling number of loose ends and unanswered questions.
Messier and heavier than Days Of Future Past, this is not so much the next step in the X-Men’s evolution as a failed callback to past glories.
X-Men is a franchise that can coast on the considerable appeal of its suitably extraordinary ensemble, but even these actors can’t distract from the fact that this well has run desperately dry of ideas.
A dreary instalment of the X-Men superhero franchise.
X-Men: Apocalypse isn’t perfect but it is still a rousing, actionpacked tale and after so many sequels it achieves the impressive feat of leaving you wanting more.
We can’t fault the ambition on show, and it isn’t a genuinely bad film but, as with the Avengers, there are too many characters to juggle, with the result that it feels simultaneously lumbering and overly lightweight.
Oscar Isaac takes his turn as the bad guy in this latest likable instalment of the comic superhero saga.
Is it too much to ask that X-Men: Apocalypse spells the end of days for this very tiresome franchise?
General release. Check local listings for show times.