Movie: X Men : Apocalypse
Krishna
All your favourite characters are here. Except one of the most famous, the Wolverine. Also you get to know how the young Xavier whom we met in the previous X Men movie as a young man, becomes bald and crippled.
You also meet some new characters (Angel, for instance) that is nice. But otherwise it is the same X-Men kind of movie.
The story starts with ancient times in – where else? – Egypt. The super villain this time is Apocalypse himself, with the Four Horsemen in toe. He is trying to move his essence into a younger body so that he may live on, but a people’s revolt stops it midstream and buries him under rubble, frozen forever until he is disturbed again. Which on cue, happens in our times (OK in the 1980s) due to an earthquake.
Meanwhile, Magneto is quietly working in a factory, as an ordinary man, trying to make a living with a wife and a daughter, hiding his identity. When he saves a man from certain death, he has to do so by revealing his power over machinery and is castigated for it and his daughter calls birds to attack the officers who came to arrest the father. One soldier accidentally kills the wife and daughter and Magneto kills them all with a chain that was hanging on his daughter’s neck.
Meanwhile, Angel, a mutant with wings is challenging to combat others and a fellow mutant called NightCrawler, who can move anywhere like smoke, who is caged inside an electrified cage (so not being able to escape out). When things look very bad for NightCrawler, Mystique (the famed Jennifer Lawrence) saves him, burning Angel’s wings in the process.
We meet Scott Summers whose eyes can burn anything until in Xavier’s school, they give him glasses to protect others and also enable him to see.
The Apocalypse tries to rally all the mutants against the X Men. With some (Magneto and others) on his side and X Men split into law abiding (Iron-man) and law defying groups, there is plenty of potential for turning X Men against X Men until all ends well.
The thrills are there. The story is too comic-book-like to narrate in detail. If you liked the previous one, you will enjoy this one too.
6/10
– – Krishna