Milking a Franchise

Rating: 5/10 (16 June 2019)

Although i wouldn't exactly call the X-Men Universe a franchise but rather a series of unfortunate movies, it still tries to convince its audience that it is indeed relevant enough to compete with other A-list titles. The problem i have with this is that in line with competing with other studios, they no longer care about making a proper story. At this point the X-men have been milked so dry that i want to treat it like an injured horse and just shoot it in the face.
Again, because this movie has such a cookie cutter formula it fails to become something noteworthy. It is now full of plot points that every other superhero movie has. A powerful villain shows up that threatens the world as we know it and in order to stop him our charismatic protagonist has to recruit other super people to help this cause. Isn't this the exact same premise for X-Men First Class? Hell it even has another tragic backstory to Magneto's character i mean christ guys give the dude a break. We've already established that his life utter garbage you don't need to another reason for him to hate humanity. And this is what i mean, its become so formulaic that the whole super heroes saving the world bit completely lost its charm at this point, its just as routine as brushong your teeth now. They failed to bring any new material that it was honestly a chore to sit through.
I don't like this movie simply because they failed to deliver on being something more than just a superhero movie. Their premise was good, an almighty mutant that they had no way of beating, although it's overused, there could have been some honest potential there. Maybe have the characters go through every tactic they could find in ancient times to find a way to beat him, or maybe find some other clever way of beating him like analyzing his immortality to counteract it. Instead of course they went the ex machina way and just let another super powered individual kill him with virtually no effort just to create another cookie cutter sequel.
While being formulaic isn't exactly a bad thing, this film makes it look bad. There were some instances in the film where i went "wow", that's cool, but that was only because they elevated it so much that it was honestly the only good thing i saw. I am obviously talking about Quicksilver's scene but that is also overused at this point. They did it the last movie and people loved it so of course theyre going to use it again.
Overall the composition of the film was meh for me. The cinematography is average and didnt really try.The acting is fine i guess but none of them really felt like their characters except maybe Magneto but at this point I'm pretty sure that was only forced character development where they only killed his family in order for the audience to feel sympathy for him. In all honesty at least Fassbender was enjoyable to watch in this film. The writing was formulaic and unsatisfactory, like i said they only went the "strong guy is killed by even stronger guy route" so that kinda sucks. It was a dumb fun movie but i would not want to see it again. If i wanna see that Quicksilver scene i can just watch it on youtube without the hassle of sitting through the film.