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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 6, 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

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