X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Directed by Bryan Singer
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
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Many moons ago, the first mutant Poe Dameron… whoops, sorry, make that Apocalypse (Oscar Issac) was inexplicably blindsided by a bunch of slaves he thought were under his thumb who buries him for all time — cue Stargate theme — right up until someone foolishly unearths his tomb in Egypt and provides exactly the right ingredients to bring him back to life.
Isaac’s bellowing “all-powerful” Apocalypse, who strode the Earth in 3,600 B.C., appears to have been borrowed from the deliberately camp 1994 mashup of sci-fi, ancient Egypt and transgender daring that was “Stargate.”
But here’s an entry that starts more like “Stargate” or “The Fifth Element” than “Captain America: Civil War.” It’s here we meet our main baddie: the eponymous blue meanie, played by the usually charismatic Oscar Isaac, trapped in makeup and a suit that make him look and act like a block of painted granite that talks (occasionally, a bit).
This messy sequel (technically still a prequel) goes back further to ancient Egypt, where a proto uber-mutant’s Temple of Doom- style-meets- Stargate regeneration is stalled, only to resume in 1983.
As Psylocke, one of Apocalypse's apprentices, Olivia Munn (2014's " Deliver Us from Evil ") gets little to do and less to say, but a rousing action sequence she receives during the climax makes it worthwhile for her.
To frame my own feelings, a from-the-gut, worst-to-best ranking: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), X-Men (2000), X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse , The Wolverine (2013), X2 (2003).
But in 1983, he is set free and, angered by what he finds and empowered by all the mutant powers he's acquired, gathers Four Horsemen - Magneto (Michael Fassbender), Psylocke (Olivia Munn, vacant), Angel (Ben Hardy) and Storm (Alexandra Shipp, "Straight Outta Compton") - to destroy the earth and begin anew in "X-Men: Apocalypse."