What else can I say about the one of the most anticipated
movie of 2014, of course it blew everyone’s minds, with the tone of the movie
set and delivered perfectly, this is definitely Bryan singer’s greatest “franchise
fixer”
At first, me not being an X-men fan and not knowing anything about X-MEN lore, was a bit skeptical, I didn’t really follow the X-MEN trilogy(thankfully) the only X-MEN movie I watched was “First class”, my biggest fear about this movie is that it would not appeal to non-X men fans such as myself, possibly making us dumb-founded throughout the movie, but thankfully my fear was banished after seeing the movie, it provides a quite easy to follow storyline, didn’t threw too many characters that we(non X-MEN readers) are not familiar with, and keeping the original cast too, both from the X-MEN trilogy and First Class.
The story is based from the popular comic book series with the same name, and I’m using the word “based” very loosely here, the movie didn’t follow the comic book story at all, even switching the protagonist and demoting the original protagonist to a mere extra (sorry Kitty Pryde) I understand that they want to use wolverine as a protagonist because the character is relate-able (it’s basically what people would picture when we say ”X-MEN movie”) but that is not a great excuse to reduce Kitty’s role in the story-line, seriously how many screen time does the women get? 10-15 minutes? Come on,
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But beside that minor nitpick the movie remains faithful to
the comics, and didn’t made too many drastic changes that may destroy the movie’s
tone, on the contrary it made it better, for example, The story is set in a
bleak future where humanity is killed by mutant-hunting robots called Sentinels
(note that this is one the darkest storylines in the X-MEN timeline) instead of
using the normal version of sentinels, which is a big robot can easily be
defeated with strong mutants, this version is a adapting robot predator, and
can easily dispatch even the strongest mutant, this version is better because
it set the bleak, dark and hopeless tone of the future, whenever the sentinels
show up the characters realize that they can’t stop it, delay them maybe but
not stop them, and this is very well delivered with the scores and visuals
presented in the movie, it shows a perfect re-creation of desperation,
hopelessness and death, it became one of the movie’s strongest suit.
Speaking of tones, the movie really did a good job of delivering and convincing those, when the movie wants to be funny and quirky, they can be, and when to movie wants to deliver a powerful message through conversation, they can, and when the movie wants to be deep, they can, without making it cheesy and/or campy and also managed to wrap the audience in said scenes leaving them in awe, I’m not going to spoil those scenes, it’s a better experience and understanding when you watch it yourself, when you finally watch it you’ll get my point, really visuals and scores are this movie’s strongest weapon, not just the deep scenes, the action scenes too especially the action scenes, the action is fast paced but also easy to follow, complex but not confusing, a perfect balance that may not rival the scenes is “Amazing spider man 2” but doesn’t wait too long to throw us into the action.
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FINAL VERDICT: 9-10
Translate: Filmnya bagus,aktingnya keren,visualnya realistis banget dan ceritanya juga bagus,engga ribet,nonton sana.
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