Mind you) of the characters in the film and what they're experiencing. Some indication of just how many competing plot points are at work in X-Men: Apocalypse can be gleaned by simply detailing a few Isn't quite dead yet (to purloin a phrase), and his "awakening" several millennia later is a major spark setting the end of the worldĬonflagrations aflame as the film continues. Pyramid that experiences an implosion worthy of a Las Vegas hotel being decimated to make room for something grander. That leaves an apparently moribund En Sabah Nur buried in the wreckage of a Such a ritual is in process as the film begins, but evidently the rank and file Egyptians, or at least a renegade group of them, are having none ofĪnd they attempt to interrupt the transfer before it's complete. Is nonetheless unable to attain immortality, something which forces him to transfer his consciousness into new, younger bodies at regular Villain, the supposed "Patient Zero" of mutant-dom, En Sabah Nur (Oscar Isaac), a superpowered baddie who has all sorts of special talents, but Before that can happen, though, the film indulges in some Egyptology, with a prelude that introduces this film's Men: Apocalypse can be seen as a sequel of sorts to that film, using its story set in the 1970s as the background for events that take placeĪround a decade later.
Despite that somewhat frayed ambience, there's no denying that X-Men: Apocalypse has a lot of excitingĪnd it's also clear that director Bryan Singer has lost none of his passion for the franchise, one he's credited with resuscitating with X-Men: Days of Future Past. Point in the franchise's history, there are so many competing stories that watching any given X-Men outing is like experiencing theĮquivalent of ADHD. Was less uniformly enthusiastic than many of the previous X-Men films had enjoyed, and at least part of that reaction may be due to the X-Men:Īpocalypse had its own "end of the world" (or at least end of the franchise) traumas when it was released to critical assessment Mummy (maybe with just a hint of Darth Vader thrown in for good measure), with an ancient Egyptian mutant resurrected in theġ980s and havoc of course therefore being wreaked. Men: Apocalypse seem almost like yet another reboot of The
Is being detailed), it may simply not be feasible any longer to try to get everything to make "sense". With characters, individual storylines, ping ponging eras and actual completely different outcomes for various characters (depending on which Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, October 4, 2016ĭoes it even matter anymore which timeline, arc and/or universe X-Men: Apocalypse is a part of? In a franchise so stuffed to its gills My advice to Fox - spend the next month emphasizing how different the leaked cut is to the final print, regardless of whether that's true.Don't they know it's the end of the world?
That would be the best case scenario for Fox, as if it really is a 'director's cut', then the geeks will now still have to see the final product in theaters for comparison. Could it be a general annoyed and/or glory seeking Fox employee? Could it be someone upset over the supposed behind the scenes tinkering of Gavin Hood's original concept? Which begs the question, if the finished film ends up being different, is this the cut that existed prior to the meddling? If this cut is not the final cut, then the only plausible reason to leak it (aside from just creating chaos) would be if it was a prior version that represented director Gavin Hood's preferred version. With a copy this (allegedly) good, it's pretty obvious that someone high up the food chain is responsible. Rumors are sure to begin regarding how in the hell this happened and who is responsible. While I have not watched the print, I did take a twenty-second gander (for confirmation) at a streaming video site (after updating my anti-virus software) and I can say that the image and sound are pretty much low-grade DVD quality.
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