In addition to being the follow-up to Days of Future Past, which is regarded as one of the best movies in the entire X-Men franchise, there are a lot of new additions to the cast. If you’re keeping track, X-Men: Days of Future Past opened to $110.6 million two years ago.
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How are early reviews? Had it been released in February, or March – especially against the lackluster reception of Batman v Superman, Apocalypse might be hailed as the next fun installment in the popular X-Men franchise. “Captain America: Civil War” just showed us how to make sense out of character chaos: Keep the story rooted around a couple of primary leads, and keep the tangents at a minimum. Today, audiences are asking studios to step up their game and letting them know with their dollars at the box office.
This time around, she was trying hard not to laugh at McAvoy saying his key line: “I’ve never felt power like this before”.
McAvoy reprises his role as Professor Charles Xavier, aka Professor X, while Turner debuts in the superhero series as Jean Grey, aka Phoenix. Those images caused quite a ruckus and this movie seemed destined to disappoint. “I thought I would laugh at that line in the theater and I did not”.
“I would not want to trade it for anything the others have”, the Oscar victor said at the global fan premiere in London for “X-Men: Apocalypse”, according to the Chicago Sun Times. The sprawling cast, however, leaves too many of them feeling wasted, from Jennifer Lawrence to Olivia Munn, the latter handling a way-cool glowing sword but precious little dialogue. Nearly certainly a company owned by the gentleman you see above, longtime X-Men foe Mister Sinister.
As I write this, X-Men: Apocalypse sits at 47% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes and 73% with fans.
He replied, “I hope so”.
In said scene, we’re taken back to the base where Colonel Stryker was keeping the X-Men captive until Weapon X got loose and cut a bloody swath through the men stationed there. Born Nathaniel Essex, he dates back to the 19th century in the comics and is a scientist and geneticist whose schemes typically involve experimenting on mutants in order to both flawless the human race and to extend his own life.
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At one point, a group of Xavier’s students emerge from a matinee of “Return of the Jedi” and remark that “at least we can all agree that the third film in the series is the worst”.
