so....
its not a terrible movie. I actually dont think its bad. It's just sort of servicable and there's a definite lack of wow in all of the action sequences and there's also a very strong sense of dejavu to the last phoenix movie including the house scene in which Famke Jensen Phoenix obliberated some house.
There's a sort of similar scene here but its done worse.
The action is also SOOOOO small in scale. An attack on a brown stone in NY. An attack on some shitty commune with 2 helicopters. Like, what am I watching?
The problem is the third act that has such a small scale this seems like a weird tv show off shoot with the most underwhelming final act of any superhero movie of late. Its all shot in tight little boxes in a train, then it crashes and she implodes some aliens and it ends. It really doesn't deliver a pay payoff for the last xmen movie after like 7(?) movies? Seriously WTF?!
ADD: also alien plotline is so badly done and you honestly don't even care. They don't show them enough to get a real motivation nor give them a premise as a threat. And they're all shown as humans so the xmen are just fighting rando humans.
The thing it has going for it:
Fassbender is always magnetic on screen
Nightcrawler is amazing and has some great scenes
that's it. The new cast I've never loved and I dont like anyone in this but the problem with this is how low rent it feels. I dont like jean grey, cyclops, hank, raven - storm and quicksilver are underused and quicksilver disappears from the 3rd act from injury.
ADD: also, you can tell Fox shat this out with how lacklustre the postcredit is. Ugly cheap CGI fonts and then it rolls to an end and there's no post credit. #GAVEUP.
Honestly Turner isn't amazing but fine
The problem is that they didn't give her a character before the turn they really should given the young team the focus in apocalypse to make this feel a bit more earned
I've not watched GOT so I dont know her from there but she has a serious case of potato face (as does raven). Every time she's on screen, I just dont think she looks right - especially when the camera faces her straight on - I dont think she can act either. Very wooden and I'm guessing the role asks for her to look "blankly empowered" so she spends most of the film looking blankly empowered with glowing cracks on her face.
