Bryan Singer has contributed immensely to the world of superhero and comic book movies. Think about it; do you remember being bombarded with a full range of superhero movies when the first X-Men came out? Leaving aside the plethora of choices available right now to help us decide and compare superhero movies, we clearly remember how excited we were after watching X-Men uno.

Singer clearly had a vision and it can be understood with this movie. Right off the bat, let us inform you that this movie isn’t an ending. It acts as a sort of bridge to future X-Men movies, which we believe we might have quite a few of. Perhaps Singer envisions connecting all the movies to the first X-Men, though we aren’t quite certain how Sansa Stark will grow up to be Famke Janssen.

For the latest X-Men offering, Singer has utilized one of the most famous comic book story lines in the X-based comic book series.

And yes, he does up the ante to create a threat that is quite global (insert various city wide destructions revealed in the trailer which just happened to reveal quite a lot already). Comic book fans will have a lot of fan service peppered throughout the movie to look forward to. But that’s just it; it is a movie filled with fan service and falls pretty much on the “acceptable” range when it comes to other parts of the movie.

Don’t get us wrong; the movie is definitely entertaining. Though that’s where it draws the line. We are certain you might have witnessed truly extravagant superhero movie fests that have released recently. While we are not going to compare this movie to them as they each pose their own unique qualities, X-Men does not offer much in the way of being memorable.

With a whole roster of characters introduced into the movie, many don’t receive much screen time or are really not much worth remembering. Olivia Munn’s Psylocke isn’t really threatening as an antagonist and Ben Hardy’s Angel is truly someone you could shake hands with, invite for a party, chill and settle things with over a conversation. Oscar Isaac’s Apocalypse is a completely forgettable antagonist.

Now the action sequences were well-choreographed; most of them anyways. The sequence involving the breakout character of Quicksilver simply outshines all other sequences in the movie, even though it is practically an extended version of the “Days of Future Past” sequence.

Most other action sequences make you feel like you have seen them all before in the previous X-Men movies. The climatic sequence takes place in the ruins of a deserted cityscape (duh!) which is something we have gotten used to.

While the whole feel of the movie was supposed to be like a comic-book narrative including the comic-book poses, the colourful costumes and even the rather excitement-lacking dialogue  (Apocalypse’s dialogues tend to wear you down over the course of the movie), it does not allow each scene to stand out or give us time to sympathise with the characters. Magneto is the only character in the movie you will be rooting for and Michael Fassbender is incredible (as always).

So, that being said; how do we rate the movie? Let’s say we give it an acceptable 6.5 out of 10.

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