X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

In the 1980s the X-Men must defeat an ancient all-powerful mutant, En Sabah Nur, who intends to thrive through bringing destruction to the world.

Director:

Bryan Singer

Writers:

Simon Kinberg (screenplay by), Bryan Singer (story by)

Stars:

James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence

1 win & 19 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
James McAvoy	...	Professor Charles Xavier
Michael Fassbender	...	Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
Jennifer Lawrence	...	Raven / Mystique
Nicholas Hoult	...	Hank McCoy / Beast
Oscar Isaac	...	En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse
Rose Byrne	...	Moira Mactaggert
Evan Peters	...	Peter Maximoff / Quicksilver
Josh Helman	...	Col. William Stryker
Sophie Turner	...	Jean Grey
Tye Sheridan	...	Scott Summers / Cyclops
Lucas Till	...	Alex Summers / Havok
Kodi Smit-McPhee	...	Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
Ben Hardy	...	Angel
Alexandra Shipp	...	Ororo Munroe / Storm
Lana Condor	...	Jubilee

Storyline

Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshiped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel's X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto, to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven with the help of Professor X must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction.

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Plot Keywords:

mutant | x men | superhero team | superhero | based on comic book | 

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Taglines:

Destroy

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence, action and destruction, brief strong language and some suggestive images

Did You Know?

Trivia

The film came out on May 25, birthday of Sir Ian McKellen, who first portrayed Magneto on-screen.

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Goofs

Despite the film taking place around January of 1983, Nightcrawler can be seen wearing the iconic red and black jacket from Michael Jackson: Thriller. However, the music video wouldn't be released until early December of 1983, and since it was designed originally for the video there's no way Nightcrawler could have had even a knock-off yet.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Charles Xavier: Mutants: born with extraordinary abilities, and yet still, they are children stumbling in the dark, searching for guidance. A gift can often be a curse. Give someone wings, and they may fly too close to the sun. Give them the power of prophecy, and they may live in fear of the future. Give them the greatest gift of all, powers beyond imagination, and they may think they are meant to rule the world.

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Crazy Credits

The X-Films' title sequences features a weapon used by the villain of each film, backed by the X-Men's Cerebro device.

In this film it is Apocalypse's pyramid device.

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Connections

Featured in Everything Wrong with...: Everything Wrong With Dark Phoenix In Plenty Of Minutes (2019)

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Soundtracks

Four Horsemen
Written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Dave Mustaine
Performed by Metallica
Courtesy of Blackened Recordings, Inc.

User Reviews

Spectacular

This is not going to be a long review, i want to summarize my thoughts on the film, now after i just saw it in the cinema.

The movie is absolutely spectacular. The effects, the settings, the pacing, the acting, the music, the direction. It is all very well done, and if the story itself had kept up with the rest, this would be close to one of the best, if not the best, superhero film to date.

But the story is a bit weak, it's hard to take in a few of the twists and turns in this film, but still everything else is so brilliantly crafted, the movie pulls it off anyways, and that makes me feel i got my moneys worth. This is very important to me when i go the cinema. I need to walk out feeling i was entertained.

I'm usually the guy that puts story and script first when it comes to films. Way to often when the story is bad, the script and the acting and all the rest that follows almost always seem half done. This is not the case here.

This movie is like when you bake a cake, and you end up putting in a small amount of salt instead of sugar. You notice you did, but you don't have time to fix your mistake, so you bake the cake to the best of your abilities anyways. At the end it's one hell of a spectacular looking cake you made, but people notice the taste is a bit off, but somehow the added salt contributed to the flavor in a good way, and the cake was very much edible.

This is how i feel after seeing this film. It is really well crafted, and i do recommend people seeing it.

Details

Official Sites:

Fox Movies [United States] Marvel [United States]

Country:

USA

Language:

English Polish German Arabic Egyptian (Ancient)

Release Date:

27 May 2016 (USA)

Also Known As:

X-Men: Apocalypse

Filming Locations:

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$178,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$65,769,562, 29 May 2016

Gross USA:

$155,442,489

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$543,934,105

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox, Marvel Entertainment, TSG Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

144 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Atmos DTS (DTS: X) Sonics-DDP 12-Track Digital Sound Auro 11.1 IMAX 6-Track Dolby Surround 7.1 Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1