15 Weirdest Movies Of 2016
9. X-Men: Apocalypse
Apocalypse feels like Bryan Singer jamming every unused idea he ever had for an X-Men movie into one story, regardless of how well they fit together. It’s a campy, garish mess, overloaded with characters – do Angel, Beast or Moira MacTaggert truly need to be there? – and featuring a plot that appears to have been made up as they were filming.
This lack of restraint is actually kind of fun to watch, with dramatic scenes coming off as funny – check out Magneto destroying Auschwitz in the least tasteful scene of 2016 – to cartoony world destroying CGI effects.
It’s so bloated and over the top, it swings back round to being entertaining, and if it does nothing else right, at least it doesn’t play it safe.