 So I love X-Men back in the 90s watching that cartoon. That's how I fell in love with the X-Men So let's see how 20th century Fox turned out with their third film in this new Rebooted film series. I'm Brandon Keith Avery and this is just my opinion So I remember back in 2011 when the trailers first started coming out for X-Men first class at that time I could care less about this franchise. I mean it was horrible I wanted all the rights to go back from Marvel But they were starting over with the origin of Magneto in the origin of professor Xavier and I gave it a try I went in with open arms with an open mind and my goodness gracious. It blew me away I thought that movie was a perfect 10 out of a 10 and that was back in 2011 And still five years later that movie is still just on up on a high level for me as just Quality entertainment and just a great fantastic X-Men film And then days of Future Pass came out and I thought it was a great film I thought it was a good film great had a lot of awesome things in it But it just wasn't as good as X-Men first class for me So going into X-Men apocalypse I saw the first trailer the second trailer the third and the fourth because they did release a lot and my Excitement level for this movie was just like okay like a week or two before the film came out if they were just to say Hey, we having some type of difficulties. We're gonna postpone the film for a whole nother year I wouldn't gripe a complaint. I really wouldn't care. So that's just how I felt about X-Men apocalypse going into it And now that I've seen the film. I have to be honest. It's not that bad. It was actually good I don't want to say that it was amazing or great It is a lot better than Batman v Superman, but it's still nowhere remotely close to as good as Captain America Civil War it's just right here in the middle, but I did enjoy the film overall with the story I understood everything. I was able to follow all the characters. I was able to follow the plot But there was just nothing amazing that jumped out at the screen for me At least until the very end and I want to touch on that one of the major problems I think this film has is it was trying to tell two stories at one time and it just didn't do that seamlessly It was just kind of bouncing back and forth and those two stories are Apocalypse and his origin and being walking up in the modern day And then also the X-Men over here on another side with them lost trying to come together and While I did like majority of the things that apocalypse had to offer Initially, I did not like what they were doing with the actual X-Men and the reason why is this is the third film in this Rebooted franchise first. We had X-Men first class directed by Matthew Vaughan and in my opinion He's pretty much the best comic book Director out there and then Brian Singer came back for days of future past But between those films there was a jump of 10 11 or 12 years And while I thought X-Men first class was perfect and the ult one of the ultimate team movies It kind of feel like all that was deluded and erased when it came to first class It's just kind of like everything that they built up that I love them first class was completely depleted and days of future past and then again It feels like the exact same way with X-Men apocalypse Yes, some of the characters come back from the previous films But I feel that the unity that was brought Together from the characters in those past films is just non-existent anymore And we're having to tell an origin story over and over and over again after the third film And I just didn't like that. I mean with the third film I should feel that they all have a core team But no the with the X-Men plot within apocalypse the X-Men again are scattered about and they have to come together Again to save the day and I'd rather not have seen that I'd rather just see them You know kind of teamed up at the beginning and then have to tackle the bad guy But it just didn't play out for me that way now I'm going back to apocalypse. I liked him, but I didn't like him His voice would change back and forth to a number of different tones Throughout the movie and I did like that But what I did not like is every time they showed him close up You know, I just really wasn't getting any feeling of a threatening mutant that could you know destroy the whole world But when they were zoomed out on his face I mean that was a lot better effects or makeup or whatever you want to call it But when they were zoomed in it just felt like a guy with blue makeup on now I've never really made a video about all the previous X-Men films before with Holly Berry being stormed But I think that role was completely miscast. I mean, I love Holly Berry. She's a beautiful woman very talented actress But she just was not cast right as storm But now we have a new storm and I forgot her name, but I liked her I liked the introduction that we had with her character I mean, I liked the introduction that we had with most of the characters which while we had an introduction with Jean Grey and Cyclops And as if you know the story, you know that there is a romantic Relationship but blooming between those two that will come to fruition later on in the years And I love seeing these two get along in his infancy and it showed promise for a lot to come in the future Something that I did not like about Jean Grey is I think they kind of power her up too much in this movie If you know you the story of Jean Grey, you know that she becomes the Phoenix later on and then dark Phoenix I'm not saying that they put all of that in this movie. I'm this is a non spoiler review I'm not gonna spoil anything for you But if you've seen the film already you kind of know what I'm talking about at the end I just kind of think that they should have died her power down just a little bit But as far as Cyclops is concerned, he was probably one of my favorite characters in the whole movie I mean he's young he's innocent looking and he just wants to do the right thing And that's just kind of the Cyclops that I knew back from the 90s cartoon was you know He was kind of the leader in a way And no he was not the leader in this because I mean these guys are like 11 12 13 Maybe you know young teenagers old so he hasn't come into their role yet as a young man But I could definitely see this Cyclops developing in the future for more X-Men films to come Now Magneto on the other hand you know I Have two characters that I didn't like and I will mention the other one later, but Magneto He was very disappointing to me I mean such a badass amazing character someone that I just absolutely loved in first class Thought it was okay in days of future past But what they did with his character in Apocalypse was just a complete abomination to what I loved before I mean he's already been through hell and back in hell again and I Mean I understand like let me just say this going into this mode Okay, if you know Apocalypse and his story he comes back all the time He's nearly immortal and he's always recruiting these four horsemen to do his deeds his dirty work to help him out rule the world whatever and Going into this thing and I don't know much about Apocalypse. I'll be honest I mean, I know just a little bit, but his powers to me or off and on is this Inconsistent to me. I just don't know in this movie or in in the comics or in the 90s cartoon but me not knowing Apocalypse and you know what he's trying to do when when I was seeing the trailers for this movie I was gonna I was really disappointed if Apocalypse was mind-controlling all the X-Men I wanted them to have a good reason as to why they Chose to be on his side and this may be considered a little spoiler brief I don't think so. There was no mind control Oh, the the characters had a conscious mind and decided to follow Apocalypse and they did give Magneto a valid reason for Wanting to do that because he just fed up with humanity in the world But it's just the way that they did it. I just thought it was just too much and completely Unnecessary and I'm just sitting there watching just like oh my gosh. I can't believe you I did that I mean this character has just been through too much And I just did not want to see that because there was some innocent characters That reached our demise that has to do with Magneto and I just I didn't like it I mean and as far as Magneto is concerned They just turned him into a whining sobbing character that doesn't care about anything in the world He just threw out all of his plans and motivations and And and strongcomings that he had in the previous films out the window and just somebody I just don't give a damn about frankly I don't know why they did this to one of the best fictional characters in anything But they just did not do Magneto any justice for me and it put a bad taste in my mouth. Now as far as Angel He was cool. I'm not really a fan of his character Havoc was cool. He's the older brother of Cyclops now sidewalk. I don't know much about her character She was cool. I like to present. She didn't really have that many lines But she did look like somebody that you want didn't want to cross the one way and then she would chop off your head with that samurai So or sonic blade and her powers, which I just said a Sionic energy. I really don't know much about it because I just don't know much about her character I really don't know. I don't remember sidewalk being in the 90s cartoons that much way back in the day Because that's where I got most of my X-Men knowledge from but I will say this about her costume It is just quite stupid to see her in her comic book costume I mean, there is no reason for her to be dressed like that Yes, she looked hella sexy and fine and all that good stuff And if that's what the studio was going for the sale tickets or whatever They did a great job there But her costume serve no function at all is serve no purpose bringing in another comic book movie That came out a few weeks ago captain America in his uniform He was enlisted in the world war two and went through a super soldier serum It had to go around the country to let the people know that captain America is here You know the spray of the good word and word of mouth and all that so he wore a flag to as a symbol of hope Black Panther has his costume because it's literally armor Ironman and war machine what they're wearing is literally armor. The same thing with Ant-Man his costume makes them shrink and grow There's a function to these characters costume Scarlet Witch and Hawkeye those are just clothes I mean have you seen Scarlet Witch's comic book costume? It would look ridiculous if she would have put that on on the big screen So we saw like with these skin tight purple spandex with all these slits and stuff Yeah, it looks sexy, but it also looks stupid Her character did do much but the little bit that she was on screen at a light other than her costume night crawler He just didn't do it for me. I just didn't really care for the guy I wish they had the same look of night crawler that they have from x2 extra night it It came out was that 2003 2004. I mean this night crawler wasn't bad It just didn't do anything for me and honestly if they were to say hey night crawler is not coming back to next I would not care some other characters that I not like the decisions that they made was beast and Mystique starting out with beasts a lot of people were complaining when the Charters first came out for X-Man days of future Past is like wait a minute wait a minute now I saw X-Man first class and bees shot himself in the foot with that special mutant needle crap And it made him transform into the blue mutant So why is he back in his human form in this and then we saw days of future past You found that why but they still try to give you the same lame reason as to why he's in his human His human form his non blue form, and I don't like that beast is a badass. I want to see him beast I don't want to see the the the actor I want to see the blue fairy fellow jumping and swinging around and I mean I don't want to spoil anything because you may consider that I spoiled you earlier But I just don't like that they did that keep beasts blue another the exact same thing with mystique Keep her blue and with Jennifer Lawrence. I mean she's a great actress and a lot of people don't like how Mystique is serving the forefront and all the X-Man movies because in the X-Man that most people know She's not a main character. She's like someone that was pulling the strings from from the behind the scenes And I can understand the argument, but it doesn't bother me because These prequels here first-class days of future past apocalypse These are prequels to the 90s show that most fans know and love and or modern day And so by the end of this film and I kind of theorize this before I saw it is She's probably gonna take a backdoor to popping up in the middle of all the characters and future X-Man films And I don't I don't think the actress Jennifer Lawrence wants to do that Anyway, because her performance in this movie it was a huge step down to what she gave us before I mean, I don't she just really feels like she just did not give a crap does not give a damn about this role anymore Like she was a little I'll be in the movie, but I'm tired of that makeup sitting like no We got to cut that in half, you know, and you can tell I mean the effects with her makeup Worse damn they're horrible. No, it was horrible. I mean it was great Oh my goodness, it was great and all the previous other Mess this thing up. Hold on and I'm gonna keep the video going But anyway, it was great and it was great and all these other Previous films, but the makeup that she had in this film here It was just like okay You can tell that they were just trying to rush and you know Hurry up and get the scene and get her, you know dressed up It just did not look the same it does not look right when they had when they were showing me stick zoomed in What are her blue makeup? It just did not look good. It looked bad and they clogged me completely out of the film I mean, I didn't care to be there. She you could tell that she didn't care to be there I mean, it just wasn't you know, what that was and my opinion now as far as Quicksilver is concerned and actually before I talk about Quicksilver I want to say something about mystique and nightcrawler and this was a complaint of mine that I had Well, I'll tell you about the complaint I had going into days of each past I wanted them to acknowledge that Quicksilver was a son of magneto and they did that in a nice little night And I'll give them that but also if one thing that really pissed me off With how they followed up with first class is now Lauren shuler donner Is one of the producers for 20th century fox that produces these films And I don't know the lady never met her never talked to her before I'm pretty sure she's really nice, but in my opinion She does not know what the hell she's doing with these x-man films because as far as Characters are concerned and storytelling and the reason why I say storytelling is building on Continuing on the strong foundation that you built on from the past what I mean is X-man first class that's probably one of the best endings that I've ever seen in my entire life in cinematic history Not the best but one of the best Because it showed the two factions splitting apart with people going on with charles isaver and people going with magneto and then they they Rescue the diamond girl. I forgot her name at the end and you saw that mystique and azazel Were on the same team azazel was the red demon figure from first class that could teleport Mystique is blue when as soon as I start off like hell. Yes Mystique and azazel are gonna go smash and then they're gonna have the child night crawler Night crawler is gonna get his blue color from mystique and he's gonna get his teleportation from azazel It's perfect, but they completely threw that out of the window with first class By killing azazel and then like why would you kill off a character? You know that especially off-screen that the audience has come to know and love There's something that we didn't see before in the the earlier x-man films of brown singer But so going I was at the end of uh first days of future past I'm just sending myself up. I guess we'll never get a night crawler because uh azazel's dead But no, we got a night crawler and I was like, okay, maybe they're gonna create some something Make some creative way to where night crawler is the son of mystique But did they do that? No, they didn't do that at all I don't know why that would have just you know brought more character development Between both characters knocking two birds out with one stone, but no She does not know what she's doing and the reason why I know that it was her that made the decision of first classes If you watched the specialist features, she was talking about her having a mandate of how she wanted, you know new characters and You have to watch it. Um, you just have to watch it, but I'm just saying like, you know, ma'am That's why this movie wasn't as good as I wanted to be because of your involvement Of course, you're going to be involved But sometimes you just make the wrong decisions But when Laura Schroder seemed like she makes a lot of the wrong decisions, but hey, that's just me Of course wolverine made a cameo, uh, which I did not like Um, I just don't like a character that has animatum Blades in his hand that's going around stabbing people and there's no blood Or when people are emptying a clip on him with a bunch of machine guns That it's not slowing him down at all. Well, it's not I mean, it's not showing blood anything. It's just It's just cheap cheap cheap now I may seem like a hated the same and I really didn't I mean, I really enjoyed it But there was nothing that had to me at the edge of my seat that was grabbing me I was just watching a bunch of scenes that flow pretty smoothly together Uh until the end and it had a strong ending but kind of got really sloppy in the end I do like apocalypse as far as you know, him just waking up You know, he was ruling the world thousands of years ago He taking a nap wakes up and he was looking at the world like what the hell is going on? What is this? No, this is wack Y'all got these people over here ruling these people these people over here You know, y'all are following blind leaders. What's going on? No, I need to put a stop to this so I like that And I like when their character has a certain plan But there's a rhinestone into his plans where either slows him down or him going with his plot within the story He learns something and tries to adapt his plan to make it more efficient And they did that with his character with him trying to link up with all the other mutants Which I thought was actually pretty creative And was getting me on board with the film at that point that I already was before and I do also want to mention quick silver He did have a a great scene in this movie But I did not enjoy as much as days of future past and the reason why is They they're just making him too fast like too too fast He's just he's quick service fast, but he's not that fast and also in his scene where he had a moment to shine It was just too comical. I mean it's like this guy has a billion lives and he knows that he can never die So whether it's the end of the block or the end of the the world He just has an attitude or persona that he knows he's not gonna die and he's gonna be okay And that just kind of takes the stake out of the film for me You know and it just doesn't do anything for me So it kind of just sounds like I have mixed feelings about all the characters and I do There's more good than bad But in the story, you know, it flows all the way through Things do get a little sloppy at the end with the battle They're at the very beginning. It is kind of boring. I'm wondering how you know, what are y'all going? What are y'all doing? What's going on? You can tell that all the destruction that they tried to create is a giant set With blue and green screen in the back. It just didn't look real and authentic to me But at the very end of the battle, there is an epic comic book Marvel moment that will have fans like myself kind of just screaming like You know where people are blasting all the power and stuff that was cool. That was fun And I really did enjoy that but when everyone is using their powers, especially apocalypse There is some inconsistency with his powers to where I was saying, okay If you could do this now, why don't you do this before? Why do you even really need the horsemen if you can do this? I really just don't understand I mean, it was it's a fun film That I went in with mediocre to low expectations And if you go in like that and not expecting the world, I think you will have a good time And I will say the last 10 minutes of the movie is the best for me Also the way the the film closed out right before it cut the black and showed the credits That is exactly what I want to see and it gives me hope for the future So it's time to rate this thing. I did enjoy the film overall. It did have some problems There was no no pacing or editing issues At times it did kind of get a little boring But it was still flowing through because there was just not that much action at all It really wasn't in the action until the end And then that nice comic book moment that'll get you screaming like a crazy comic book fan that I know you are So if I had to rate X-man apocalypse out of a 1 out of a 10 I would give it a 7.5 out of 10 I gave X-man first class a 10 out of a 10. I love that I give X-man days a future pass at 9 out of 10 And I give X-man apocalypse a 7.5 out of 10 So guys, have you seen X-man apocalypse yet? Do you want to see it? How about turned you on? Have I turned you off? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know in the comment section below Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing. If you like this video Go ahead and give me the thumbs up. And if you didn't like the video, that's fine Just leave me a comment below why and still give me the thumbs up since you watch this on youtube Go ahead and subscribe to the youtube channel So become one of my subscribers to get all the content that I have to provide in the past and in the future And if you are like a written review for this movie or any other films that I've written in the past Head over to the site. 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