X-Men: Apocalypse

X-Men: Apocalypse is the 2016 20th Century Studios feature film adapting the Marvel Comics franchise X-Men. It is ninth movie in the X-Men film series.

The movie tells the origin story of ancient Egyptian mutant En Sabah Nur (Oscar Isaac) later known as Apocalypse who awakens in 1983 after being imprisoned for almost 5000 years. Apocalypse assembles his "four horseman" of mutants Ororo Munroe, aka Storm (Alexandra Shipp), Angel (Ben Hardy) and Psylocke (Olivia Munn) with a forlorn Magneto (Michael Fassbender) as his fourth. Elsewhere, Professor Xavier (James McAvoy) is building his school adding Cyclops (Tye Sheridan) and Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee) to a team that already includes Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), Quicksilver (Evan Peters) and Havok (Lucas Till).

Directed by Bryan Singer from a script he co-developed with Simon Kinberg, Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris, the film was a box office success, ranking among the top four films of the franchise. Critics and fans were lukewarm on the poor depiction of the highly-anticipated villain and the messy story.

The film was followed by Dark Phoenix.