X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

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	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Bryan Singer (Valkyrie, X-men 1, 2, Days of Future Past)
	Actors: James McAvoy (Wanted), Michael Fassbender (Inglorious Basterds, Prometheus), Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games 1-3)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, SF
	Conditions of visioning: 20.06.2016, Cineplanet, Costanera Center
Synopsis: Entombed since the Pharaohs time, the oldest and strongest mutant awakens to find a world dominated by humans. He quickly gathers other mutants to start a war, or more an extinction.
Review: After the quality and originality of First Class by Matthew Vaughn and the return of the franchise originator Bryan Singer directing the solid Days of Future Past, the question was obviously to know whether the same man could conclude the hexalogy with panache. I can tell you that he doesn't although Apocalypse is very watchable. The stakes are there (the oldest and strongest mutant on Earth) and the characters we love as well, but in fact Days of Future Past did a better job at wrapping up the franchise than Apocalypse does. This one looks more like a new beginning (although no sequel is foreseen), including new actors like Sophie "Sansa Stark" Turner that I really don't like, as a Jean Grey far less sexy that when Famke Jannsen did it. The bad guy is well depicted, as is the influence he has on his disciples, including a young Strom. But the eternal love/hate story between Magneto and Xavier is getting old, as is the insistence on the key role of Mystique (Lawrence) that is forced onto us for the third time. It may finally be time for the franchise to end... at least until the spin-off Gambit with Channing Tatum planned for 2018.
Rating: 5 /10