Another Good X-Men Movie That Could Have Been Better

Rating: 7/10 (3 December 2016)

It is the 1980s. The uneasy peace between mutants and humans will be threatened when a powerful mutant named "Apocalypse" (played by Oscar Isaac) is freed from his prison. Having the power to amplify the powers of other mutants, Apocalypse recruits and empowers four mutants to protect him (the four horsemen of the Apocalypse — yeah, I know, it's kind of corny) as he implements his plan to destroy humans and create a new world for mutants. Standing in the way of Isaac's nightmarish dream are James McAvoy (who plays mutant Professor X) and his mutant students called X-Men. It will take all their combined efforts — and maybe a bit of outside help — to defeat Isaac and his four minions.
My most memorable, movie moment of "X-Men: Apocalypse" is **SPOILER ALERT** the sequence that had mutant Quicksilver save all the X-Men in the Westchester mansion from an enormous explosion. This outstanding display of Quicksilver's powers makes one wonder how he could not destroy Isaac and his four horsemen by himself. I find this to be a huge shenanigan that forced me to take a lot of points away from this movie.
Although "X-Men: Apocalypse" is one of the better X-Men movies (the sheer number of mutants going toe to toe is a comic book lover's dream), it suffers from two huge plot holes (one already mentioned in the previous paragraph). The second plot hole is this: why doesn't Isaac just make a general call for any disgruntled mutants to join him from the beginning? Take over a TV station and make his offer to the world. With so many mutants being abused throughout the planet, Isaac would have amassed an army of hundreds, if not thousands, of mutants; and he would have been unstoppable. So why didn't the movie have this take place? Probably because the writers were like "Uhhhwe're not going to deal with that, and hope no one notices." Well, we noticed.
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