Despite wasting Oscar Isaac's talent and having all - around boring villains, X-Men: Apocalypse is still a must - see for fans of the franchise, while more casual superhero enthusiasts will enjoy its bold action sequences and
emotional character backstories.
Not exact matches
With
backstory kept to a bare minimum,
characters are revealed via action rather than exposition, meaning that the film relies heavily on a skillful ensemble of actors to provide insight and
emotional involvement with the smallest of gestures.
Cooper is an old hand at creating individual scenes that evoke
characters» flaws and
emotional backstories through a minimum of words and gestures, but the bigger picture seems to elude him.
Every
character has a keenly hilarious
backstory, and the action (flying carpets and urns, gigantic attacking serpents, lightning strikes, to - the - death combat, sex) surges from drastic and pulse - raising to exuberantly madcap, magical, and genuinely
emotional.
-LSB-...] a sibling's betrayal as
emotional backstory for your
character, while Jami Gold discusses
character likability and subtext.