An Honest Review

Rating: 2/10 (26 March 2017)

People complain about the plot holes...that's not really the problem.
The problem is that things are thrown at the viewer out of nowhere and threads are left dangling. It takes place in the future...fine, but there is little explanation as to why and how things have come about and where some of the characters came from.
Particularly X23. Why, why, why, why, why, why? We'd like to know...but that's either a movie for another time or they just didn't think we'd care enough to wonder about her.
Next time, we'd like to know a bit more. It's not too much to ask.
Or better yet, stop for a while. Refresh. Drop the X-Men, you have more to work with, X-Force, X-Factor, New Mutants, Excalibur, to name a few.
Let the X-Men rest and either pick up something you can do fresh without a reboot, or just let the licenses revert, because honestly, it's starting to really hurt to watch and you're starting to tick the fans off.
At this point it feels, especially with "Apocalypse," that they are just making movies to keep the licenses. "The Last Stand" was awful, true, but the franchise was brilliantly rebooted with "First Class." They took the time to address continuity issues, they took the time to respect the concerns that the fans of the franchise had about the reboots and even tied up some of it in "Days of Future Past."
With "Apocalypse" they threw away everything they worked so hard to preserve in both the original franchise and the reboot.
"Logan" does much the same thing, it takes a once respected timeline and throws it all away, leaving just a movie, a stand alone song that doesn't fit in with the rest of the Franchise album.
They aren't trying to protect the franchise any longer, they are just turning out movies with complete disregard over how they fit in with the established story.