X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

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nThere are many cool things about this film, but one of themnis that it takes place during the 80’s, one of my favorite decades. This lendsnitself to many cultural references to that era, so keep your eyes peelednbecause there’s a lot of those! Keeping true to the whole 80’s vibe, even somenof the characters look the way they did during the 80’s, for example Stormnlooks the way she did in the comics during the 80’s with her white Mohawk! Speaking of this whole thing about the film taking place during the 80’s, we can see a pattern forming. X-Men: First Class (2011), took place during the 70’s, X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) during the 80’s and from what I hear, the next one will take place during the 90’s. It’s a cool gimmick they’ve been fooling around with. Onnthis one we even get Angel done right! We even see how he gets his metallicnwings, which happens exactly the way it did in the comics. Speaking of thisnfilm being like the comics, there are a lot of moments taken right out of somenof the best X-Men stories! There are hints to the Dark Phoenix Saga, which willnapparently be explored in future films and done right, not half assed like innX-Men: The Last Stand (2006). And there’s a whole segment dedicated to Barry Windsor Smith’s epic Wolverine storyline Weapon X.

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nAnd speaking of cool things that happen on this film, I’venalways been a huge fan of Barry Windsor Smith’s Weapon X storyline, it’s one of thengoriest Wolverine stories ever drawn. On that story we see Wolverine in a beast-likenform, as he is awakened for the first time after he is given his adamantiumnclaws. He storms out of a secret lab, slashing and maiming every single footnsoldier that gets in his way. Well, Bryan Singer has brought that comic to lifenand incorporated it into this film and it freaking blew me away to see Barry Windsor Smith’s classic artwork coming to life on this film! Some might not be happynwith the fact that the Weapon X storyline was reduced to a mere segment onnX-Men: Apocalypse. The Weapon X storyline is so seminal, so good that it shouldnhave gotten an entire film dedicated to it instead of a segment sandwiched intonX-Men: Apocalypse. I agree with these sentiments wholeheartedly. Weapon X wouldnhave made the basis for the perfect Wolverine origin story, instead of the godnawful X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) movie we got. Still, I was happy to seenit as an extended showstopping sequence in X-Men: Apocalypse.  Wolverine fans, strap yourselves on tight!

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nAnother great thing about X-Men: Apocalypse is that it’snwell acted and written. I dug Magneto’s storyline, it’s so personal, sondramatic. It humanized the character a lot, it makes us sympathize with thenvillain once again. And once again, Fassbender steals the show as Magneto.  Performance wise, this is one of the bestnX-Men films in my book. Then there’s the show stopping scenes in the film, ofnwhich there are many. Its one showstopper after the next, every character getsna moment to shine; every one of them shows the full capability of their powers.nOnce again, Evan Peters as Quicksilver gets not one, but two amazing scenes innthe movie! He moves at lightning fast speed to the tune of an amazing song! Notngonna spoil it for ya! Point is, not a moment is wasted on this film, there’snno boring filler on this one, this one is jam packed with action!

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