As one blogger put it, “The authors managed to restart the franchise without restarting it.” The time-shifting move is not new and has worked since the Warrior Queen's Xena, and maybe even before. Do I like him? Of course not. Re-recording a timeline can be a good idea only if it is the original idea of the work (as it was in "Back to the Future"), but not when it is used as a forced cowardly technique of a talentless company that rents a hack and dreams of somehow saving its income against the background of loss of viewership.
In principle, if you look at the sum of the parts, the film seems to be good, it looks much more normal in comparison with some competitors, especially later ones. Then, in 2016, not everyone went crazy and somehow more or less tried to shoot normally, justify their activities, so that their film still looked like a film, and not as another notoriously failed left-wing propaganda nauseating and unfunny eater for naughty pigs (this is their view of the audience), with whom in principle no one is going to reckon. And then you turn on - well, the movie, it's nothing, but the movie.
However, for me, everything crosses one simple thing. You called it "Apocalypse." Was there an event of comparable scale? It wasn't. Was there a classic Apocalypse character? There was the OLD MAN, played by Oscar Isaac, a pathetic dwarf, ridiculously sticking out of his clothes. This is a total miscast and the authors’ complete refusal to embody this character at all. If you don't know, in the comics and cartoons, the Apocalypse looked like a monster, like a tank man, a base man, he was a giant, he was scarier than Thanos. Who did you show for him? Fardad? He also came out as an unsuccessful copycat of Ultron. It's just squalor, it's a failure of concept at its root. You promised? You didn't. 1 point.
Well, for the completeness of the picture, the traditional list of film sinners from me:
- Almost at the same time, with a difference of a couple of minutes, the Apocalypse with his henchmen, Mercury and the military are in Xavier’s school. And if the military at least explained that somehow managed to respond to the telepathic impulse in 2 minutes, then the appearance of Mercury at this moment is the greatest and happiest coincidence in all cinema. Pietro ran to the school just in the split second of the explosion! The coincidence could have been avoided if he had just arrived at school a few days earlier and witnessed the attack.
- How did he even see that explosion? How did he know everyone had to be saved?
- Mercury in comics and TV series has always been a negative character. I have no idea why they suddenly made him not just an X-Man, but their savior.
- All the nuclear missiles went into space. You know, they didn't explode there. Stay in orbit. The cognitive fact of the day is that all space debris falls down decades later. I'll be laughing when it's all over the place.
- The team performs the task on the plane. On some totally wild stolen uberdevais waving its wings. Are you tired of Drozd? Thanks to this movie, I learned that you can change an airplane.
- Magneto had just begun the destruction of the cities, and the military had already arranged a meeting of the military headquarters on this matter, invited an expert and prepared a presentation so that he could explain to everyone that the BP began.
- Magneto three times wreaked havoc, was the cause of world conflicts, quarreled Xavier with his named sister, destroyed his love and left him disabled. And Xavier still fights for his soul, forgives and offers to stay in school! I don't.
- The mystic has already thrown X-men, killed the military, made an attempt on a political figure. And then suddenly she accidentally became a hero, imbued with this, repented, returned, doing good. I don't.
- Gene Grey can control Phoenix now? What is the meaning of two films on this issue?
Still, there are advantages. The film gave a selection of key events for the universe: how Wolverine met Gina and what went a love triangle, when suddenly the school decided to become a paramilitary organization ... as a bald professor. The film is beautiful, dynamic, many characters fit into it more or less normally, each took his place. Many countries are shown, and each is believable and almost without cranberries, languages sound. There's a bit of humor, no excesses.
But for me, it doesn’t solve anything, because the authors did the wrong thing. This is the case with the entire franchise.