Accompanied by “Sweet Things (Are Made of This)”, he plays deliverer to the backdrop of early 80’s pop culture that makes the sequence laugh-out-loud funny for those of us who were teenagers at the time.įrom a faith perspective, I think X-Men: Apocalypse offers quite a bit to talk about. His anger and bitterness make him ripe ground for manipulation by the power-hungry Apocalypse and Magneto becomes one of Apocalypse’s four henchmen.Ĭinematically, the best part of the film is the two-minute sequence when Quicksilver (Evan Peters), first introduced in Days of Future Past, uses his speed to save kids from Xavier’s exploding school. Events blow up in his face when he’s forced to use his powers to save a fellow worker’s life. After the events of Days of Future Past, Erik takes refuge in Poland with his wife (Carolina Bartczak) and daughter (T.J. The one character who has more of a story to tell is Erik Lehnsherr, more commonly known as Magneto (Michael Fassbender). X-Men: Apocalypse has too many characters to fully integrate them all into a compelling story. Not all bow down, however, and an uprising causes his burial under the earth for centuries – until 1983, when he’s accidentally awakened. His unprecedented power enables him to rule the world, prolonging his life by transferring his consciousness from one body to another.
Apocalypse (a mostly unrecognizable Oscar Isaac) is the first mutant but he believes he’s a god. This time around, the graduates and students of Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters band together to stave off world domination in X-Men: Apocalypse.Īpocalypse begins with the introduction of the villain as he was in ancient Egypt. The latest film in the popular X-Men franchise falls short of its immediate predecessor, Days of Future Past, but fans still get the satisfaction of seeing the younger versions of their favorite characters.
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