Surprising depth and profundity and a great job focusing on characters

Rating: 10/10 (22 March 2017)

A movie with surprising depth and profundity that was able to make basic human emotions matter as much if not more than super powers. For example, we find Charles Xavier, a brilliant man who's powers were reliant on his brain, coping with such an ironic and tragic but human situation: his mind is betraying him. When he realizes his crime committed to those he had spent so long nurturing and acting as a father figure to, especially as a senile old man, that truly was heartbreaking. Logan still has his hard-earned pessimism but you really get a feel of how exhausted of life he is.
My one gripe were the villains were kind of bland for me, though they do serve their purpose as vehicles for ideologies. I do have a higher expectation from Xmen to have villains be more than just bad guys in costume up to no good, and while that wasn't exactly the case here I did find their depth more on the lacking side.
In all, I felt the movie really did a great job focusing on characters and relationships and showed how the Xmen were not a superteam, but a surrogate family.