X-Men: Apocalypse

2016 Directed by Bryan Singer

Only the strong will survive

After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.

James McAvoy Michael Fassbender Jennifer Lawrence Nicholas Hoult Oscar Isaac Rose Byrne Evan Peters Josh Helman Sophie Turner Tye Sheridan Lucas Till Kodi Smit-McPhee Ben Hardy Alexandra Shipp Lana Condor Olivia Munn Warren Scherer Rochelle Okoye Monique Ganderton Fraser Aitcheson Abdulla Hamam Hesham Hammoud Antonio Daniel Hidalgo Al Maini Berdj Garabedian Ally Sheedy Anthony Konechny Emma Elle Paterson Manuel Sinor Show All…

Alternative Titles

X-Men 8 - Apocalypse, XMen 8 - Apocalypse, X-Men 6 - Apocalipse, G'aroyib odamlar: Apokalipsis, X-מן: אפוקליפסה, X-Men 9 - Apocalypse, X战警：天启, X-Men: Apokalipszis, Iks-odamlar

fantasy science fiction adventure action

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Review by Evan ★★★ 10

Also known as X-Men: The Mummy Returns Part 2.
Review by adrianbalboa ★★ 28

characters in this movie ranked by how much the makeup and costume dept. hate them:
8-10. sophie turner, michael fassbender, & olivia munn
they showed up, got into costume, & off they went. fassbender just popped on a helmet and his fun purple cape and was home by 6
7. beast
an extremely off-putting shade of blue, beast is really unbelievably lame. he’s not cool but not exactly repulsive either. they are giving him nothing to work with. and he’s like the 4th weirdest blue person in this movie
6. lucas till (from the hannah montana movie)
they gave him a mullet
5. my boyfriend scott summers
when he’s not physically blindfolded he has to wear giant goggles PLUS special shoutout to…
Review by Matt Singer ★★½ 6

"When Nightcrawler broke into the White House at the start of 2003’s X2, it was a watershed moment in the history of comic book movies. Here was one of comics’ most fantastical characters - a blue-skinned, three-fingered German demon with a pointy, prehensile tail and teleportation powers - brought to life with all of his outlandish quirks and powers intact, showcased in a sequence that was thrilling and utterly convincing. It was something no one had ever seen before. It was truly uncanny.
It is telling of the state of superhero movies in 2016 that when Nightcrawler returns in the new X-Men: Apocalypse, he’s treated basically as a throw-in background character and his powers are used with little fanfare, mostly…
Review by Matt Singer ★★ 11

See what you want to do when you cast one of the most handsome men on the planet is bury him beneath 60 pounds of hideous blue makeup, have him talk in a hilariously goofy voice, and only do incredibly uncool things like stick his hand on a television screen and moan “Lllllleeeeeeearniiiiiiing.” That’s just smart business sense!
Also, in the last scene of Days of Future Past, Wolverine is fished out of the water by Mystique disguised as Stryker. In this movie, it’s revealed that Wolverine has been held captive for ten years by ... the real Stryker? Great work everyone! Super glad everyone was paying attention!
Review by matt lynch ★★★ 12

Flailing, repetitive, shapeless, silly, yeah to all that, but stick with it and you'll find one of the most tantalizingly bugnuts entries in this series, one that mostly even sheds the usual bread-and-butter thuddingly obvious social politics and the recent episodes' clumsy Cold War shenanigans for something way weirder and thornier. Seems actively engaged with the idea of these characters' ceaseless recapitulation of emotional baggage and secret pain and cyclical re-radicalization, at the end even dredging up from the depths the raw material of past trauma in order to form it into new structures. Doesn't even peak with such craziness as Magneto laying waste to a deserted Auschwitz or a nuclear Armageddon reflected in Stan Lee's stupid sunglasses. These movies will probably never get back to the relative simplicity, dare I say elegance, of X2, and accordingly this is a total mess, but wow what a mess.
Review by romana ★★★★

i loved 'erik don't do that part 3'
Review by josh lewis ★★★

fine, here's the obligatory three stars for any movie that has the balls to show magneto literally tear down auschwitz in a sea of catharsis
Review by Coolnilk ★★★ 9

As a direct follow-up to Days of Future Past, which is in my view the peak of the entire X-Men team-up series, X-Men: Apocalypse unfortunately doesn't quite stick the landing to being a sequel that tops that one, although I did get some decent entertainment value out of this in the end, despite some faults.
The most striking flaws that this film has is the way Apocalypse is invariably treated in this one, which is absolutely criminal in my book, as Isaac's uncompelling portrayal of that title villain is relatively mediocre and bland for the most part. Plus, the end of the world scenario that X-Men: Apocalypse presents to us is rather formulaic, and has already been seen countless times…
Review by davidehrlich ★★★ 11

Right from the opening scene, set in 3600 B.C., "X-Men: Apocalypse" challenges what you know about the past. Take, for example, the Egyptian pyramids. Once thought to be graves for the pharaohs, it turns out that the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were conceived as an instrument for history's very first mutant, a quasi-immortal purple guy called En Sabah Nur (a.k.a. "Apocalypse") to ritualistically transfer his consciousness from a dying body to a healthy one. Ben Carson was way off the mark.
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Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★½ 24

42/100
This one just made me sad. There's Oscar Isaac buried beneath a slab of makeup, holding his hands outstretched, with a look of grim concentration, and there's Michael Fassbender in that dorky helmet, holding his hands outstretched, with a look of grim concentration, and it's like watching Monet and Vermeer paint a house. With rollers.
Anyway, IT. IS. ACCOMPLISHED. On to Logan Lucky! Can't wait to see mutants rob a racetrack. It's gonna all have been worth it.
Review by Gonzo ★½ 11

▶ Gonzo's 2016 Movie Rankings
Is it good?
Unfortunately, no. Like most life-long X-Men fans, I've prayed for the day that Apocalypse and his Horsemen would grace the big screen, but what we get is such a muddled mess of a film, which is quite a disappointment.
How bad is it?
It's so bad, you wouldn't believe that Bryan Singer—the man who brought us two of the best superhero movies around, X2 and Days of Future Past—is responsible for this. It's such a shockingly huge drop-off in quality from DoFP that you'd think Brett Ratner returned.
How's Sophie Turner as Jean Grey and Tye Sheridan as Scott Summers/Cyclops?
Turner... she's okay. Same with Sheridan. Their chemistry though needs some work.…
Review by DirkH ★★ 11

Oh dear.
Evil eggplant wants to destroy the world.
Evil eggplant puts together an 80s glamrock band to do so.
Evil eggplant causes terrible fits of melodrama to all involved.
Spandex people look pouty and serious whilst fighting Evil Eggplant and the Skimpy Outfit Rockers.
Spandex people win.
No joy (bar Quicksilver), no fun, no weight and too much assumed investment for the characters. There were moments, but even they got buried under the melodramatic debris so deeply not even a cool as hell cameo could save it.

Recent reviews

Review by epicfamilyguy ★½

he was supposed to be the Thanos of X-Men lol whoops
Review by nj4318a ★★★

7
Review by yasmin ★★★

x-men : erik joins a cult
Review by ianamaia ★★★

I don’t like what they did to mystique in the new movies tbh, if they wanted jlaw so bad they could’ve just casted her as another character... mystique being an inspiration and a hero just doesn’t sound right to me
Review by metacritic123 ★★★

52/100 based on 48 critic reviews
Review by weinrichnoah ★

Quality of a superhero movie is inversely related to the level of stakes.
Review by Jamie ★★½

The mid 2010s saw loads of nerd take to YouTube and try to be funny by shitting on every film that wasn’t The Dark Knight. I’m calling out Screen Junkies here. Anyway there biggest issue with superhero films was the clean up afterwards. I shit you not, these people would sit and moan because films about Superhero’s weren’t realistic.
X-Men: Apocalypse is by no way a great film. However it’s a brilliant film to eat an unholy amount of popcorn to.
The film continues to brilliantly tell the story of Magneto. Fassbender carries this film especially in the first act. This storyline really brings some maturity and consistency to this film that does disrupt a lot of the franchises continuity.…
Review by Zoë Achelois ★★★½ 3

best. speedster. ever.
apart from that, meh. well, except fassbender made me cry like 8 times, so. ya.
Review by IamSilva ★★★

Quicksilver Scene Saves The Movie
Review by joão ★★★

Decaiu hein
Review by Stariu ★★★½

não lembro de nada, só lembro q eu gostei
Review by bertdany ★★★

Terzo capitolo della tetralogia prequel della saga degli X-Men. Un ottimo film di intrattenimento che si collega bene agli altri capitoli. Ottimi effetti speciali e interessante l’arrivo di diversi personaggi. Peccato per il costume di Apocalisse che sembra un po’ un cattivo dei Power Rangers, ma a parte quello niente male.