Apocalypse

Fox didn’t wait like some other big studio in order to reveal the big baddie of the movie – Apocalypse can be said to have been featured heavily in this first trailer. And this is a good thing, we believe, since those who compared the terrifying Apoc with Ivan Ooze can now eat their words. As Bryan Singer said while dissecting the trailer, his version of Apocalypse was always intended to frighten as well as awe. The version which was leaked online after the Comic Con was an unfinished one, without any FX added.

And Apocalypse does look intimidating. We can say from the start that we will love Oscar Isaac, who brings much-needed gravitas to the role. His voice inspires and doesn’t seem at all to be the voice of someone who is not even in his 40’s.

Of course, parallels can be made even from this point, between Apocalypse and Magneto – the former having the exacerbated morals of the latter. Apoc intends to replace the blind leaders of the strong ones (the mutants) and show them the real path – there is no place for the weak. And if this isn’t what Magneto says most of the time, only more explicitly, then we do not know what this is.

In any way we do expect for this movie to become at least the hit Days of Future Past was. And mainly because of the main baddie.