After Disney bought the X-Men rights from Fox, it was only a matter of time for them to end there franchise. Personally, I thought Logan was a touching and heartbreaking film that also served as the perfect conclusion to the saga. As for the other characters, their stories were appropriately wrapped up in X-Men: Apocalypse. As such, they really was no need of this film's existence.
Jean Grey was particularly uninteresting. I don't blame Sophie Turner, I'm sure she's a good actress. However, she wasn't given much to work with. Most of the film her character cries and does what other people tell her to do. She's also incredibly stupid. It's because of her inability to control her emotions that all the problems in the film are caused, and yet for some reason she gets away with it all at the end.
This movie also portrays Charles in a poor light. Everyone keeps blaming Charles for the things Jean does, saying that he shouldn't have hidden the truth of her parents from her. But what was he supposed to say? That Jean had murdered her own mother? That would have likely traumatized her at such a young age and made her scared of her powers. But everyone still gives Charles a hard time, saying that he should prioritize the life of one mutant over many helpless beings. How is the fact that he suppressed her memories mean it's his fault that she has an alien parasite in her?
Mystique is absolutely terrible here. She does two things: force down some stupid feminist lines in the film and die halfway through. Her death has no impact in this movie whatsoever and everyone forgets about her in five minutes. Horrendous way to end the character's story.
The villain is so generic that I had to look up her name (it's Vuk, if you were interested). Her motivation and goals are that she wants absolute power or some other dumb reason. And the rest of the side characters are not that interesting either.
Magneto's arc in this movie is the same arc he's had for the past three films. He starts out as a good person, then something tragic happens to him and he pulls out his helmet. He becomes evil for a while and wrecks havoc. Then he becomes good at the very end. It's already been done so often that I'm sick of it. How often are they going to show the same character arc?
The acting is really wooden as well. You can tell most of the actors were there out of obligation rather than actually wanting to be there. James Mcavoy and Micheal Fassbender were pretty solid, but I've known them to do better performances. Jennifer Lawrence was quite terrible here. She doesn't even bother to put the Mystique makeup at all. She clearly does not care at all about this role and just wants to be done with it.
The special effects are pretty solid and the train fight sequence is quite cool looking. There was one scene that I liked, but all this isn't enough to save the movie. This isn't the worst X-Men film or anything, but it should have been a lot better than it ended up being.
Jean Grey was particularly uninteresting. I don't blame Sophie Turner, I'm sure she's a good actress. However, she wasn't given much to work with. Most of the film her character cries and does what other people tell her to do. She's also incredibly stupid. It's because of her inability to control her emotions that all the problems in the film are caused, and yet for some reason she gets away with it all at the end.
This movie also portrays Charles in a poor light. Everyone keeps blaming Charles for the things Jean does, saying that he shouldn't have hidden the truth of her parents from her. But what was he supposed to say? That Jean had murdered her own mother? That would have likely traumatized her at such a young age and made her scared of her powers. But everyone still gives Charles a hard time, saying that he should prioritize the life of one mutant over many helpless beings. How is the fact that he suppressed her memories mean it's his fault that she has an alien parasite in her?
Mystique is absolutely terrible here. She does two things: force down some stupid feminist lines in the film and die halfway through. Her death has no impact in this movie whatsoever and everyone forgets about her in five minutes. Horrendous way to end the character's story.
The villain is so generic that I had to look up her name (it's Vuk, if you were interested). Her motivation and goals are that she wants absolute power or some other dumb reason. And the rest of the side characters are not that interesting either.
Magneto's arc in this movie is the same arc he's had for the past three films. He starts out as a good person, then something tragic happens to him and he pulls out his helmet. He becomes evil for a while and wrecks havoc. Then he becomes good at the very end. It's already been done so often that I'm sick of it. How often are they going to show the same character arc?
The acting is really wooden as well. You can tell most of the actors were there out of obligation rather than actually wanting to be there. James Mcavoy and Micheal Fassbender were pretty solid, but I've known them to do better performances. Jennifer Lawrence was quite terrible here. She doesn't even bother to put the Mystique makeup at all. She clearly does not care at all about this role and just wants to be done with it.
The special effects are pretty solid and the train fight sequence is quite cool looking. There was one scene that I liked, but all this isn't enough to save the movie. This isn't the worst X-Men film or anything, but it should have been a lot better than it ended up being.