Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: The X-Men save humanity.
In the post-credits scene of X-Men: Days of Future Past, a crowd cheers “En Sabah Nur”, a teenager building a pyramid using his powers. A way for director Bryan Singer to introduce a new super villain, who then finds himself at the heart of X-Men: Apocalypse. Oscar Isaac thus lends his features to the formidable enemy of the group of mutants, threatening all of humanity thanks to his almost unlimited powers.
On paper, X-Men Apocalypse promises to be prodigious. But despite its commercial success (2.1 million admissions in France), the film is disappointing. Lack of charisma of the famous villain hidden under his prostheses, a staggering budget (the highest in the franchise!) spent in numerous scenes of mass destruction, a general one-upmanship… even the eagerly awaited arrival of Quicksilver did not convince the fans.
Later, the screenwriter Simon Kinberg will confess, with regret, that “visual effects took precedence over emotion and characters.” Same story on the side of Olivia Munn, the interpreter of Psylocke, who did not hesitate to swing: “I was surprised that the director and screenwriter didn’t even know that Psylocke had a twin brother. I had to explain a lot of things to them about my character and the universe. [des X-Men] which they didn’t know much about.“
X-Men: Apocalypse by Bryan Singer with James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence…
From 10 years old
Tonight on TFX at 9:05 p.m.