2016 · sci-fi · fantasy · action
X-Men: Apocalypse
Directed by Bryan Singer2h 24m2016
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Our read: X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · fantasy · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme sci-fi / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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