Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
X-Men: Apocalypse suffers from a bloated, overstuffed plot that struggles to juggle too many characters and a generic world-domination storyline. Apocalypse himself is a disappointingly flat villain despite the mythological potential. The acting is serviceable — James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender bring genuine weight to their roles, but many of the newer cast members are given little to work with. Cinematography is competent blockbuster fare with some decent set pieces but nothing visually distinctive. The film is highly derivative, retreading familiar X-Men beats with little originality, and the climactic battle is a CGI-heavy, emotionally hollow affair that fails to deliver satisfying payoffs for the character threads built throughout.