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I wasn’t going to see it; I don’t even play World of Warcraft which probably means I’m not the intended audience, but it was a nice day and I fancied being stuck inside a large dark room, so ignoring all past experiences of games made into movies, I popped down to the local picture house to see if it was as bad as I was expecting it to be.
And do you know what, I was pleasantly surprised.
You may not know this but there are two big houses responsible for the non-stop stream of Marvel superhero movies: Disney handles the likes of Captain America and the Avengers, while 20th Century Fox has the rights to the X-Men franchise. Thankfully, there’s not much to pick between them, so I enjoyed X-Men: Apocalypse as much as I enjoyed Civil War, and for much of the same reasons. In this outing, the on-off bromance between Professor X and Magneto takes a decidely dark turn with the awakening of En Sabah Nur, the first mutant. Having lived for a few thousand years, Nur has amassed an irresponsible level of power and knowledge which he intends to use to cleanse the Earth (because, you know – he has to) of the weak. I’ve always praised Disney for keeping their characters vulnerable. Fox has no such compunction, so we see Nur and his horsemen wreaking the kind of global havoc we haven’t seen since Dawn of Justice.
But somehow, they just about manage to get away with it, and I’m not really sure how.