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THE USUAL SUSPECTS (Singer, 1995)

I'm back in the fucking building again

I sat through the entirety of X-Men: Apocalypse without realizing, until his name appeared in the credits, that Oscar Isaac was beneath all the makeup and prosthetics as En Sabah Nur, aka Apocalypse. Why bother casting an actor of such skill and versatility in a role that could have been played by anyone willing to sit through hours of applying and removing body paint, silicone, and foam latex? But the same thing could be said about the entire film if you ignore the return the producers got on their estimated $178 million investment. When a film this size feels routine, something has gone awry, and X-Men: Apocalypse is nothing if not routine. I enjoyed the special effects when Quicksilver (Evan Peters) rescues almost everyone from the explosion that destroys the institute. The trick of seeing everything as Quicksilver sees it – i.e., as time standing still while he moves at superspeed, dashing from room to room to haul occupants to safety – is nicely done. And there are good performances from James McAvoy as Charles Xavier, Michael Fassbender as Erik Lehnsherr, Jennifer Lawrence as Raven, Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy, and Kodi Smit-McPhee as Nightcrawler. I enjoyed seeing Sophie Turner (as the latest iteration of Jean Grey) in something other than Game of Thrones and Hugh Jackman in an unbilled (and extremely violent) cameo as Logan/Wolverine. But there’s a kind of heartlessness and thoughtlessness about the film, so often characteristic of the superhero blockbuster movie genre that my experience amounted to a kind of déjà vu. I just hope Isaac got paid well. 

Anyway,its good that he got a chance to redeem himself ,but still hung up on what Superman Returns could have been.

29/12/2025

It’s been 10 years since a different worst X-Men movie hit theaters. I was hoping for this one especially after Days of Future Past and with Apocalypse as the villian I was really hoping but dam this movie sucked