Rami Malek’s charitable act of resuscitation for the benefit of Mercury’s admirers is something that the film as a whole fails to accomplish.
The issue with X-Men: Apocalypse is that Bryan Singer suggests so many possible directions to go in and still chooses the least interesting one.
Ultimately, the time-traveling conceit feels like a shameless ploy to further expand the franchise’s narrative universe.
These days, the X-Men saga seems like an interweaving, incestuous franchise bent on its own redemption.
This epic waste of $190 million plunders the grab bag of overused plotlines, failing to put its own stamp on much of anything.
Singer’s twisty breakthrough is still worth a look on Blu-ray for both its minor, diabolical pleasures and the solid job MGM has done on the transfer.
Incongruous vocal intonations aren’t even the most significant problem plaguing Bryan Singer’s film.
The disc’s intense focus on the film’s production and Brandon Routh’s transformation into Superman probably makes this a must-own for fans.
The movie is visionary bubblegum, unabashedly in love with its source material.
It’s a pleasant enough piece of hackwork, anonymous in all the right ways so that it neither offends nor thrills.
Someone telephone B. Ruby Rich, because X2: X-Men United can be lumped in as the latest evolution of the New Queer Cinema.
The Usual Suspects has always kind of sat there, hoping that you’ll love it for its twist ending.
A top-notch DVD package from the folks at MGM Home Entertainment.