X-Men: Apocalypse

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X-Men: Apocalypse

PG-13

2016

2h 23m

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Fantasy

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Worshiped as a god since the dawn of civilization, the immortal Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) becomes the first and most powerful mutant. Awakening after thousands of years, he recruits the disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and other mutants to create a new world order. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Professor X (James McAvoy) and Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) lead a team of young X-Men to stop their seemingly invincible nemesis from destroying mankind.

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Critics Consensus

Overloaded action and a cliched villain take the focus away from otherwise strong performers and resonant themes, making X-Men: Apocalypse a middling chapter of the venerable superhero franchise.

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Ariana Vives

Bitch Media

02/10/2021

It wasn't terrible, and I don't think it entirely deserves its dismal 47 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But it should serve as a wake-up call regarding the franchise's future direction.

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Antonia Quirke

Financial Times

12/27/2016

3/5

The set-up is sometimes quite intriguing. Especially when it features Michael Fassbender as Magneto (massively magnetic).

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Dwight Brown

National Newspaper Publishers Association

11/08/2016

Compared to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (a convoluted snore) or Captain America: Civil War (bombastic and contrived) X-Men: Apocalypse is the one that's worth the price of admission.

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

07/19/2023

6/10

Much of the film is spent either reminding and recalling previous events in other films, or foreshadowing events that are due to happen in a future sequel. The sheer quantity of character threads fracture the film’s structure.

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

08/20/2022

3/5

It’s hard to ignore how the film turns a blind eye to several glaring plot problems. I mean am I silly to think they might address the 10 million people killed when a city is leveled?

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

04/15/2022

2.5/4

If there's one characteristic that sets the X-Men franchise apart from the MCU, its how rarely the films remain true to the comics, both in their storylines and characters.

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Kevin P

@RT55971421 Mar 25

An incredibly messy, but fairly entertaining X-Men movie. The movie is disappointing for fans for the comics. But on its own, it's still decently watchable. Oscar Isaac as Apocalypse is pretty cool and fairly menacing, even if he looks too short and the makeup/voice effects could be better. The movie has some drawbacks with diminished special effects and less characterization for the new younger characters. Mystique doesn't have much to do in this movie. There's a lot going on with a lot of new characters, yet the plot and characters feel spread thin. It's nice to see Magneto be briefly happy with his new family before it's ripped away from him. Quicksilver is revealed to be Magneto's son, but there isn't a huge payoff to this revelation. The slow-mo Quicksilver rescue scene at the Xavier Mansion was awesome. Overall, it's entertaining, but too dense with too many characters and subplots to really let anything marinate into something impactful like the last two X-Men prequels.

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Alex R

@RT42162400 Feb 13

Terrible movie don't watch it!💩

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Maxi S.

@TheMaximumMan Feb 4

One of the best X-Men movies, was honestly surprised to see how low of a score it got on rotten tomatoes.

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Enrique R

@EnriqueRamosLovesMovies Jan 29

X-Men: Apocalypse, a solid superhero movie with a lot of fun. The story is fine, but the CGI is pretty mediocre. The characters are fantastic, the best characters are Beast, Mystique, Cyclops, the dynamic duo between the X-Men is just so entertaining. The villain, Apocalypse is well played by Oscar Isaac. The action sequences are so good, especially the final battle. The pacing is fine, but flawed. But, overall, I give X-Men: Apocalypse a 7/10 or a 4/5 stars.

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Ernest W

@X-MenFan123 Jan 26

A really good film with high quality CGI and intense action scenes, but a plodding plot and it is annoying the fact that quicksilver did not reveal to Magneto that he was his own son

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John D

@bilbot Jan 23

A bunch of other stuff stuck in a blender and this came out the other end.

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Synopsis

Worshiped as a god since the dawn of civilization, the immortal Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) becomes the first and most powerful mutant. Awakening after thousands of years, he recruits the disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and other mutants to create a new world order. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Professor X (James McAvoy) and Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) lead a team of young X-Men to stop their seemingly invincible nemesis from destroying mankind.

Director: Bryan Singer
Producer: Simon Kinberg, Bryan Singer, Hutch Parker, Lauren Shuler Donner
Screenwriter: Simon Kinberg
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Marvel Entertainment, Kinberg Genre, Bad Hat Harry, Twentieth Century Fox, Donners' Company, TSG Entertainment
Rating: PG-13 (Brief Strong Language|Action and Destruction|Sequences of Violence|Some Suggestive Images)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 27, 2016, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 9, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $155.0M
Runtime: 2h 23m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos