Not Good

Rating: 5/10 (13 May 2017)

I am going to go against the prevailing sentiment and judge this movie "not good". Performances are mostly strong (not sure I feel that way about Patrick Stewart) but the plot is convoluted and choppy, hard to follow, and the ultimate ending is massively disappointing. It starts well enough with previous characters having fallen on hard times but like the 2013 Wolverine movie it descends into an utterly ridiculous plot which i'm not sure I can even describe here - suffice it to say (SPOILERS) that the last 1/3 is like watching MadMax Beyond Thunderdome with kids living in a treehouse before trying to make it across the border (Canadian) to a rumored Eden. It is hyper violent which would not be a problem except the movie introduces lots of sympathetic characters - kids (lots), families, maternal types, then kills most of them in disturbing ways with little rhyme or reason. We once again get an endless supply of gov't mercenaries as the meaningless bad guys then kill them one by one with lots of killing being done by a banshee-like screaming child. I wanted to turn it off but I was already an hour and 45 minutes in and thought I would finish it - not a good decision.