However, the film has its negatives, too.
The fight between the X-Men and the Horsemen serves its purpose enough. Quicksilver (Evan Peters) steals the show the same way he did it in Days of Future Past. The action sequences are incredible, too. Psylocke barely received any development at all, and Storm and Angel are lucky to have introductions. The three horsemen only delivered in the action department. However, some have too little development. His motivation for joining Apocalypse is explained well to the viewers, and the feels are incredibly high. Without a doubt, however, the one with the best character development in this film is Magneto. The re-introduction of Jean Grey, Cyclops, Storm, and Nightcrawler is a good sign that the X-Men film franchise will still be alive. The stakes are high, so the X-Men gets together to stop Apocalypse.Įach character has brought something on the table. In order to achieve world domination, he recruits four mutants, Psylocke (Olivia Munn), Angel (Ben Hardy), Storm (Alexandra Shipp), and Magneto. Meanwhile, Apocalypse, an ancient Egyptian mutant and the first mutant ever, is awaken and sees the world as blind and leaderless. Professor X (McAvoy) and Beast (Nicholas Hoult) founded the X-Mansion Magneto now has his own family in Poland and Mystique rescues oppressed mutants. Set in the 1980s, the film shows us that the three principal characters (Professor X, Magneto, and Mystique) parted and set their own directions. Not only will the film feature who is arguably the biggest villain of the franchise, it will also re-introduce us to characters we loved from the first trilogy. Once director Bryan Singer posted a tweet about the film last December 2013, expectations were high and the excitement was on the roof. James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, and Jennifer Lawrence return for the third installment in the second X-Men trilogy to confront the biggest villain in its film history so far.