Enjoyable and well-acted but overstuffed and lacking originality

Rating: 8/10 (21 May 2016)

Maybe it was the high-standard set by Days of Future Past, but Apocalypse was a little underwhelming. That's not to say it wasn't enjoyable - it was much closer in quality to Civil War than it was Dawn of Justice - but a victim of its own success. The main cast are as impressive as ever with new mutants making the idea of future instalments exciting (that is, if Lawrence, Fassbender, McAvoy and Hoult step down as I suspect them to) which is matched and intensified with impressive visuals. It offers very little new to the genre and I do wish it took more risks, but one should avoid penalising the film for its previous victories (although, I do admit that I made that mistake, as I have previously discussed). It still is, after all, one of the most unique and individual franchises in the genre, unmistakably X-Men with its coups and accomplishments.
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