“X-Men: Apocalypse” Review | A Botched Apocalypse
Spoilers beware.
I struggle to comprehend why this was the route Fox took in soft-rebooting the X-Men. Critically and commercially, X-Men: Days of Future Past was a success, but the most lucrative thing it did was establish a new timeline for the series to play with. No X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and no The Last Stand — we can finally do those stories justice and tell a whole bunch of new ones, now that essentially all X-Men characters are at our disposal. With all that in mind, with the potential for new, more carefully constructed stories at the disposal of the creators….why was X-Men: Apocalypse the first film in this new X-Men timeline?
To quote Storm: welcome to the ’80s. It's been 10 years since mutants were revealed to the world, and now individuals like Magneto and Mystique have become public icons within the mutant community. Since that fateful day in Washington D.C., Charles is now the head of his school for the gifted, Erik is living with his family in Poland, and Mystique helps mutants out of sticky situations. We all know the drill by now: the status quo of the world is broken as En Sabah Nur, the first mutant and going by the name “Apocalypse,” awakens from his slumber (the result of being betrayed in Egypt thousands of years ago) and pledges to the world that from the ashes of humankind, he and his four horsemen will…
