A jumpy opening but once the events have all been established, it's a very engaging movie.

Rating: 9/10 (11 July 2016)

X-Men: Apocalypse – Review (Spoiler Free)
X-men: Apocalypse is the third prequel to the (mostly) successful Xmen trilogy and it tells the story of the mutant Apocalypse (portrayed by Oscar Isaac) in his bid to control the world.
Once again, Professor Charles Xavier (Professor X) is portrayed by James McAvoy, Erik Lehnsherr (Magneto) by Michael Fassbender, Raven (Mystique) by Jennifer Lawrence and reprising her role as Moira MacTaggert is Rose Byrne. Once again, the three of them own their roles and give a very believable performance to the extent that had Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen not played the original roles of their respective characters, you wouldn't be able to envision anyone else playing the iconic characters.
Also returning in this is Nicholas Hoult (Beast), Lucas Till (Havok), Evan Peters (Quicksilver) and a horde of other characters. There is a scene with Quicksilver that any viewer will be remembering and laughing about weeks after seeing and even the scenes where Quicksilver is only a minor character, he all but steals the show (Bryan Singer, please give us a Quicksilver solo movie). In this film we get to see young portrayals of Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), Storm (Alexandra Shipp), Scott Summers/Cyclops (Tye Sheridan) and even Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit- McPhee) and whilst it may throw up some questions about their story lines in the original X-Men movies, especially X2, them being in the film works wonders.
Whilst the pacing during the first act of the film lets it down a little bit, from one scene involving Magneto I was entirely hooked – even the people sat around me talking could not distract me from the 2 hour 27 minute film.
X-Men: Apocalypse uses a fair amount of CGI and I would say that it works well throughout. There's one particular scene during the last act where anything less than flawless CGI would have entirely spoilt the scene. Fortunately for us, it doesn't.
Since Nick Fury showed up during the credits of Iron Man back in 2008, Marvel fans have usually had to wait behind after the film ends for around 10 minutes to see an end/mid-credits scene which is usually a teaser for what is to come in the respective franchise and for X-Men: Apocalypse, Fox finally jumped on the bandwagon and gave us an end credit scene which clears up a surprise (unless you've seen the trailers) cameo that appears during the second act. Well, I say clears up but it also brings up 1001 more questions to be answered but then, isn't that the entire point to these end credit scenes?
Overall, director Bryan Singer has delivered yet another outstanding X-Men film since taking back the reins of the franchise. As I said, a jumpy opening but once the events have all been established, it's a very engaging movie that I felt invested in for the vast majority of.
I'm giving X-Men: Apocalypse an A!
(This is where most reviews would post a link to trailers but I feel the trailers for most of the movies released within the last year have been way too revealing so no link, just go and watch the movie.)