X-Men: Apocalypse
After 2014’s Days of Future Past set up the X-Men franchise for success, it really is a shame that Apocalypse fumbles the bag so hard. The third film in the prequel series really feels like they were just making “another one” of these. It attempts to repeat the successes of its predecessors, like with a painfully inferior take on the Days of Future Past’s Quicksilver slo-mo rescue, and introduces long-awaited characters like Storm and Psylocke only to do very little with them. Also, what a waste of Oscar Isaac’s talents as the titular big bad. That’s ultimately a pretty succinct encapsulation of Apocalypse: it’s a movie with a lot of material to work with and talent on the screen that manages to devolve into the least imaginative or memorable versions of each of them. — Kenneth Shepard
