X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

Teenage Mutant Hero Hurdles

Jim Blakey

RELEASED OUT NOW! 12A | 143 minutes Director Bryan Singer Cast James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult Early on in X-Men: Apocalypse, a group of young mutants sneak out of Xavier’s school and take in Return Of The Jedi. Afterwards, discussing the merits of the various Star Wars movies, they snark that the third movie in a trilogy usually sucks. This meta wink can be read as both a veiled dig at X-Men: The Last Stand and a nod towards the film they’re in, but thankfully Apocalypse very much lives up to what has come before it. Building on the groundwork he produced (First Class) and directed (Days Of Future Past), Bryan Singer confidently continues expanding his X-universe, producing a thrilling adventure that feels both global…

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