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***This Review Does Contain Spoilers*** I’m gonna start this off with the shitstorm or hate that X-Men Apocalypse has received over the past month of critic reviews. “This is the movie they make when they run out of ideas.” OR this is the movie they make when they realize they have an amazing villain to utilize, who has powers beyond the human imagination. “There are too many characters and the writing doesn’t allow everyone’s story to be flushed out.” OR there are a perfect amount of characters in an X-MEN MOVIE centered around a team of powerful mutants trying to stop the most brolic foe they’ve ever encountered and are not trying to have the movie be Bat vs Sups levels of long so they can give every character more time than they need to paint their story. If we keepin it a hunnit, there’s an entire sect of homies here at BNP straight up boycotting the movie until they relinquish the rights back to Marvel. Cant hate, Marvel has done nothing but transform the superhero market into the attraction of the last 15 years. But I can highlight why X-Men has still been doing a great job on their own. Except for Last Stand and those 2 Wolverine movies…those were straight trash.
ALRIGHT! For those of you still intrigued, I’ll keep it as real as possible. This is no Captain America, this is X-Men and you shouldn’t expect to be blown away by both the plot and action, but you can fully expect a plot that works much better than the reports are stating. You can expect to be impressed by…
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Ja-Quan Greene
Ja-Quan is a NYC teacher and artist holding a B.A. in Sociology and History from SUNY New Paltz. On his journey to become Hokage, the Lord of The Speed Force and Protector of the Recaps…
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