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X-Men: Apocalypse

2016

Bryan Singer

James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult ...

5.9

28,421

Sci-Fi. Action The mutant forefather, En Sabah Nur, returns with plans to plunge the world into an apocalypse to ensure supremacy.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Despite the undeniable presence of a huge amount of action, X-Men: Apocalypse is decidedly a case of more is less, especially when compared with the (...) more interesting personal interactions in other big Marvel franchises."	NEG
United Kingdom	Tom Huddleston Time Out	"Overstuffed with references for superfans, the new X-Men movie forgets to be original or exciting (...) There are no memorable action scenes (...) And the script is just nonsense (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Geoff Berkshire Variety	"Bryan Singer's fourth "X-Men" film disappoints with too many characters and an over-reliance on visual effects."	NEG
United States	Edward Douglas New York Daily News	""X-Men: Apocalypse" offers a lot of entertainment value for your movie-spending buck, and it's very consistent with the previous two movies in terms of its impressive CG-enhanced action."	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"This isn’t A-level X-Men, but it’s a visual feast, it doesn’t take itself too seriously, it’s brimming with stellar performance (...) and it contains perhaps my favorite scene of any movie this year (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Bryan Singer Discovers a New Mutant Power: Monotony (...) Without an interesting villain to hold the story together, this sixth adventure of the super-powered mutant team fails to engage"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This film certainly provides bangs for your buck, although there is less space for the surreal strangeness of the X-Men to breathe, less dialogue interest (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"The previous episode, 'X-Men: Days of Future Past,' was as fresh and enjoyable as this one is semicoherent and dispiriting (...) I saw the film in ordinarily annoying 3-D, which I wouldn’t recommend, but then I wouldn’t recommend seeing it in any D"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Singer shows a lot of energy, but he and screenwriter Simon Kinberg let the movie get way overcrowded (...) The saving grace is Apocalypse (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)	POS
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"'Apocalypse' isn’t quite a dog. But it is a movie with way too much of everything except the things that should matter the most—novelty, creativity, and fun"	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"'Apocalypse' is almost as bad as Batman v Superman (...) Apocalypse isn’t quite the end of the world for X-Men fans, but it might be the end of the line (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Helen O'Hara Empire	"Messier and heavier than Days Of Future Past, this is not so much the next step in the X-Men’s evolution as a failed callback to past glories (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Bryan Singer's fourth (and presumably final) mutant extravaganza represents the best and worst of what he's brought to this series (...) Ironically, it's Apocalypse himself who saves the day"	NEU

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