Robert Dick

I Am seeing this movie tonight. Edward Manning states that this film is the best movie for 2019 so far. Mmmmm.... did you not see Avengers: Endgame..... I was a fan of the skull island movie and I am looking forward to this movie, but Avengers Endgame was Epic. A culmination of 22 films and 10 years of storytelling is nearly impossible to beat.... I very much doubt that any movie in the next few years could match it, albeit maybe Avatar 2..... one of the best movies of 2019 could be a possibility.

I am a huge Xmen fan and while some of the previous films have had there problems, I still was able to enjoy them. Unfortunately, this film was absolutely shockingly bad. The actors performed adequately, there wasn't any fantastic performances by anyone (Michael Fassbender had some good performances even with a poorly written script.) The main problem was the script with a side order of poor directing. I mean the death of Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique was tragic as the Xmen find out that Jean Gray had a power restricting "Collar"/ "muzzle" for her evil personality put on her by Prof. X when she was younger and it had stopped working after the incident in space. It's kind of believable some of the mutants initially blame Jean Gray, but once they realise what happened, they wouldn't have an uncontrollable urge to murder Jean Grey(JG) or blame Prof X, but the screen writers wanted a big fight scene (Between JG and Magn.)so they could show how powerful JG was. The Aliens that shape shifted didn't really need to be in the movie as the only thing we knew about them was they wanted this power from JG. All they did was make the fight scenes confusing to the viewer. We could only recognise 2 of the Aliens(the white haired girl and the skinny black guy), and the rest of the Aliens were fighting cops, Army, government people or Magneteo's mutant friends. You barely knew who were the good or bad guys as they all looked the same. At the end of the movie, we celebrate JG by naming the school after her because she deliberately lost control of her powers to kill the Alien Girl and unfortunately killed herself in the process. Realistically, no one could control her and she was a danger to everyone, so Prof. X was right in controlling her (That's what you do with crazy people in hospital). Basically, the story didnt make sense and it was forced this way to have "cool CGI" fights. Worst Xmen movie ever.

This movie's story is eloquently woven to finish off so many different story arcs, (from major to minor arcs). These are all woven into the main plot of the movie ( undo the snap). Considering the amount of storytelling that is needed to be told, the movie could easily be confusing and difficult to follow and/or told in a rushed manner, but it is executed in such a manner that it simply flows and my 12 year old son easily followed this story. The climactic Infinity Safa story arcs for Iron Man(IM), Thor(TH) and Cpt. America(CA) were extremely satisfying with only a slight issue with the CA one. He leaves the current timeline and returns to prior to going in the ice to live out his life. Nothing is shown to the viewer that he considers doing this now that it is a possibility. Also the handing over the Mental of Cpt. America is done with no consideration. Why did he choose that person? What about the other candidate? Also, CA goes to live out his life in ~1945 so he can be with Peggy and he is still alive (but now an old man) in 2024 (5yrs after the snap), but he was technically already there (in the ice until 2011 and running around until 2024 as Cpt. America). So there are 2 CA alive for 13 yrs.