Home Featured Content

8 Ways To Fix The X-Men Franchise After Apocalypse

If you in any way side with the critics, you're probably feeling a bit let down by the latest X-Men movie. X-Men: Apocalypse isn't Fantastic 4 nor Green Lantern bad, but when a superhero franchise has reliably been the strongest one out there (sorry Marvel, X-Men is just that bit deeper and more off-the-wall than you), it's disappointing to see it take such a step backwards.

4) Make The Franchise Human Again

Recommended Videos

wolverine-stryker

Bryan Singer’s early X-Men films, never just action extravaganzas, were most often about how flawed we are as a species. The mutants in these movies are not the invincible, all-powerful supermen we see in Apocalypse, but frail, scared, occasionally disturbed people who are uncertain about their place in the world. The approach Singer took here made the films feel paradoxically very human; he made the X-Men relatable.

The characters in Apocalypse, by comparison, feel distant. They are only superficially complicated, and no longer look and sound like real people, with all their flaws and foibles. The sequel to Apocalypse hopefully won’t be so detached from real life. What has always made the X-Men movies stand out before now is how the characters within look more like us than any other cinematic superheroes. Fox should try and get back to that.