X-Men: Apocalypse
Crit
Oh, hell yeah! God as supervillain, brilliant and true to the experience of most believers. Oh, I know, that DC thing earlier this year paid lip service to godlike superheroism, but it's no metaphor here: this En Sabah Nur dude (an unrecognizable Oscar Isaac) really is the Big Kahuna, or at least sincerely believes himself to be, which is a difference without a distinction. And so it falls on mutantdom to kill God--how cool is that?
Problem is that there's too much superpower overlap. Like one superdude can run so fast as to move almost instantaneously, carrying others with him; another superdude can rearrange his molecules so as to move instantaneously, carrying others with him. Yeah, really useful to have both those guys on the same team. Also: Sophie Turner brings every ounce of acting chops to Jean Grey (whose powers are pretty much the same as Professor X's, but with more kinetic potential) as she does to Sansa Stark. But I quibble: a perfectly competent summer popcorn cruncher.
Trailers
- Assassin's Creed--Man, Michael Fassbender either digs the superhero stuff or digs the paychecks that allow him to do the arthouse stuff.
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story--What, like Episode VI.i?
- Independence Day: Resurgence--Most of this was unfamiliar, so I assume what I saw before was just a teaser, but a fuller look doesn't make me any more favorably inclined.
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