X-Men overcoming an Apocalypse

When I first saw this film, I was enraptured in the characters, storytelling, cameos, and fantastic scenes. The movie required that you had seen the last couple movies, but everything else it handles beautifully. I love this movie, and I recommend it to anyone who has the time to watch it. I give X-Men: Apocalypse a Good Good.

This film begins with the characters from the previous movie with the new X-Men, played by James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Tye Sheridan, Nicolas Hoult, and Sophie Turner, being handed the mantle of famous roles, and a new, fresh timeline. They fill those shoes by going toe to toe with a new and famous villain of theirs from the comics, the "First Mutant", Apocalypse. Apocalypse awakens, taking on four powerful mutants to be his "horsemen", his heralds of a new era. This film highlights the evil of Apocalypse by putting Oscar Issac in terrifying makeup, dark lighting, and fantastic scores, making him seem the more imposing force of the film. His horsemen are the Arabic thief Ororo Munroe, aka Storm, the bodyguard Psylocke, the fighter Warren Worthington III, the Angel turned Archangel, and the former supervillain Erik Lenscherr, aka Magneto. The director, Brian Singer, makes the heroes into gods, and the villains into demons. He achieves this through dialogue, lighting, and audio. Making characters seem sinister by giving them unnerving actions and dialogue shows the audience the divide between who the audience is supposed to root for. Putting them in light or dark, shadow or sun, makes them seem like they are choosing sides, and giving them the power to turn the world into one run by mutants.

I. Loved. This. Movie.
It was fantastic. The characters worked, the casting was fantastic, and the story was a hit. The climax was amazing, all the fights were well choreographed, and every scene that Quicksilver was in worked beautifully, with the slow motion sequences working for every part. The references to other comic book characters worked, such as the underground mutant refuge scene with Caliban, the Weapon X scene with James Logan Howlett, aka Wolverine, still played by the notorious Hugh Jackman, and the various flashes of other mutants and comic book stories that make this movie complete to any comic book fan. The movie genuinely made me excited, and I continue to do so no matter how often I watch it. The thing that makes every comic fan excited is the post credits scene, and this film does not disappoint. The post credits to this film show some suits walking into the Weapon X facility, and confiscating Colonel William Stryker's research on mutants. They place it all in a briefcase, labeled Essex Corp. This is a reference, to the eagle eyed viewer, to Nathaniel Essex, aka Mr. Sinister. Sinister is another major villain of the X-men, and occasionally Deadpool.
This film makes me happy as a comic book fan and a casual viewer. I am very happy with how the film turned out, and I hope the upcoming Dark Phoenix film does as well as this one did.