Comments on: Review: ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Lacks The Heart Of ‘Days of Future Past’ https://monkeysfightingrobots.co/review-x-men-apocalypse-lacks-the-heart-of-days-of-future-past/ Comic Book Review And Commentary Wed, 08 Jun 2016 14:56:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: News Desk https://monkeysfightingrobots.co/review-x-men-apocalypse-lacks-the-heart-of-days-of-future-past/#comment-3806 Wed, 08 Jun 2016 14:56:45 +0000 https://temp-monkeysfightingrobots-url.wpmudev.hostm/?p=34924#comment-3806 In reply to Sc0rpi0n.

Thanks for the comment!

]]> By: Sc0rpi0n https://monkeysfightingrobots.co/review-x-men-apocalypse-lacks-the-heart-of-days-of-future-past/#comment-3805 Wed, 08 Jun 2016 14:37:14 +0000 https://temp-monkeysfightingrobots-url.wpmudev.hostm/?p=34924#comment-3805 WARNING:DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU’VE SEEN THE MOVIE, MANY SPOILERS AHEAD
I think the main reason that the heart was missing from this is that the pacing of the movie was way off, which is weird considering the movie is almost 2 and a half hours long. Everything felt really rushed especially with apocalypse gathering his horsemen. I get why there was this cult mentality surrounding his followers, but the movie didn’t quite touch into why they would decide to follow him other than he gave them power. They touched on it with Magneto for obvious reasons but the others seemed to be there to just be there as nothing more than henchmen. Also the emotional moments didn’t quite touch their full potential. The good triumph over evil moments felt cliched and seemed to come slightly out of nowhere and the deaths that were supposed to be impactful just stopped short of the emotional weight they were supposed to give off. While I did feel saddened by Magneto’s wife and daughter being killed (due to Fastbender’s performance) everything happens a little too fast for me personally to feel like the heart wrenching feeling that was supposed to be felt. The same for Havoc’s death. He died wrecking havoc (which is a great way for his character to go) but his death got overshadowed by Quicksilver’s humorous rescue of everyone else and when everyone else realized he died there should have been this great sad moment where the full impact of what they’re up against by their first casualty of war like they did in First Class with Darwin’s death. But everyone’s grief is fast tracked to looks of recognition that he didn’t make it by Mystique and Beast, and a barely there sob by his brother which caused me a bit of a disconnect with his death that carried on even when Scott was lamenting about his brother with Jean and Kurt.

And the other issues with this that contributes to the lack of heart is one dimensionalness of the villain, apocalypse. One of the best things about X-Men is that the villains usually have a point of view that the rationale behind their actions can be seen. Though you don’t agree with it, you can still see why someone would choose to be on their side other than that they’re just evil. Nothing is ever black and white. While Apocalypse is supposed to just be evil, he lacks the charisma to bring others down with him which makes certain aspects of the plot a little unbelievable. But all in all it was a great action packed film, but fell into the pitfall it usually avoids of making the action the main feature instead of the story.

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