Didn't WOW me, left the movie kind of empty

Rating: 5/10 (12 March 2017)

Obviously Jackman & Stewart and other supporting cast were really good and the acting is great. Effects are good and being the movie is rated R, there is definitely a lot of graphic battles & violence, as well as a number of F-bombs, some of which were funny. So overall I'm glad I went to see the movie, but there were definitely things I would have changed and / or didn't like. Given it has such a high rating here on IMDb maybe I went in with too high of expectations.
Length, this movie clocks in at almost 2 1/2 hours, and it feels every bit that long. I saw it with a friend and granted we saw a 10:20 pm showing, but I think he actually dozed off towards the end, lol... There are just a number of scenes that could have been shortened and overall this could have easily been under 2 hours and still captured everything it set out to.
So many unanswered questions, where to begin? Now I'm not a critic of loose ends or movies not explaining things, it kind of adds to the suspense and mystery, and if anything gives people something to debate about and can one day possibly be further explained in a squeal. So unanswered questions I'm not against. But this movie just had too many to the point where when it finished I was kind of left asking, wth did I just watch? Did Xavier kill all the other mutants when he seizured out? Did none survive other than them 3? What about all the other mutants in the world? Are they dying off for some reason? Why are Xavier and Logan in hiding or on the run in the first place? Who is Mr Whitey, what's his purpose other than frying in the sun? Then there's the big overall question of why Logan's healing ability is shutting down? We saw in the last movie he had some critter around his heart which temporarily nullified his healing ability, but once he ripped that sucker off he was fine again. It was hinted it might be adamantium poisoning, but after being in his body for 70 years it just now starts poisoning him? Doesn't he care that he's not healing & getting sicker? Is he just fed up with life? How did they manage to clone him into that X-24 younger Logan? I could go on and on and while I certainly don't mind a few unanswered questions, it seems like that's all this movie did was bombard you with a lot of mysteries and unanswered questions.
Finally the ending, so as mentioned "spoiler alerts" and while this movie had a deteriorating feeling from start to finish, you kind of knew it was going to end badly end basically every mutant we ever knew and cared about is now gone, except for this new group of kids, who I don't really care about. So maybe it's time to finally bury the hatchet, and we certainly have other Marvel characters and story lines in the hopper.
So whether Marvel tried to one up the Superman vs. Batman ending by killing off not only the star, but pretty much everyone (I actually half expected Jackman's spiked hand to punch through the rocks at the end), or whether they just figured it was time for this story line to end, which is okay... Overall I did like the acting and action, conversely it did run on in parts and I certainly got bored a few times. But to close out a entire MC line while presenting so many unanswered questions was the real kicker and kind of left me with an empty feeling rather than "That movie kicked ass! What a way to end it!" feeling.