The change of scenery, new powers of the new characters and a greater magnificence of the work contribute to the film become a great fun.

Rating: 6/10 (4 October 2016)

When director Bryan Singer returned to the franchise X-Men in the previous film "Days of A Future Past (2014)", the franchise seemed to gain new life, as it relied on a travel plot in time, the insertion of new characters , loose ends trimmed the script with several references to previous films, and appeared to be a new restart for the franchise, especially after the final scene. And in parts. But what we see here is a direct continuation of the previous film set in 1983, ten years later, exactly, of the events of the previous film.
Much of the philosophy and existential questions about prejudice, minorities and acceptance of previous films have been lost and we are faced with an excess of visual effects that impair a better development of various mutant heroes. The long opening is great. Revelation (Oscar Isaac) is revealed with Egyptian pomp to situate the religious part of the plot in a time when the mutation was seen as divine superiority, not genetics. Subtly, the origin of Revelation and subsequent biblical interpretations to make an interesting parallel in certain lines of character, but could be much better exploited. The impression one gets is that it lacked the courage to enter this subject.
Already in the 1980s, the best development fell on the oldest characters of the franchise. Ten years after the days events of A Future Forgotten, Professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) with the help of Beast (Nicholas Hoult) is now with his School for Gifted Youngsters in full operation in Westchester, New York, home to many students and teaching them to control their powers and develop their skills. Among these students are Alex Summers, the Havok (Lucas Till of "Wolves"), Scott Summers / Cyclops (Tye Sheridan, of "How to Survive a Zombie Attack") and Jean Grey (the beautiful and talented Sophie Turner, the series "Game of Thrones"). In East Berlin, however, the mutants are not as well treated. There is even a cockfight mutants. Ali, the mutant known as Angel (rookie Well Hardy) dominates the cockfight. To confront him, Night (Kodi Smit- McPhee, of "Planet of the Apes: The Last Stand"). The latter ends up being found - and saved - by Raven, the Mistica (Jennifer Lawrence in "The Hunger Games"). Mystique, incidentally, is now regarded as a hero in the young mutants are mirrored.
Magneto (Michael Fassbender), after what happened in Washington, lives a new life, away from everything and everyone, right up to a new identity in Poland. He even has a wife and daughter. The CIA agent Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne), is following members of an Egyptian sect who still believe in the existence of an ancient God, En Sabah Nur (Oscar Isaac). As for the villain Apocalypse turns out to be a mistake. After a beautiful introduction to the character, he relives in full-year 1980 under any pretext unconvincing. After that, the character has no depth and only dissatisfaction with the current world, decides decimating humans and mutants to start everything from scratch. Pass the impression that the villain was created only to justify the origin of the X-Men. Another important aspect is the look of the first mutant, not resembling absolutely nothing to the character of comics, minimizing its grandiosity and very real threat level.
The script around to focus on the relationship Professor Xavier / Magneto and also explore the beginning of the relationship of the young Cyclops and Jean Grey, still trying to control their powers, being helped by Professor Xavier. Other characters appear again as the sprinter Mercury (Evan Peters). He saves all students of professor Xavier mansion that was exploded seconds later, the sound of "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" by Eurythmics duo.
The technical part is really a show piece. With more action than the other films in the franchise, the visual effects work in favor of history and can give huge epic dimension not only of the final battle as the opening scene in Egypt, the fight scenes that take place inside the ship commanded by General William Stryker, the rescue scene of school students of professor Xavier by Mercury, the Magneto power control scene with metals, all the decisive battle of the final half hour of the film. Another highlight again for composers Michael Louis Hill and John Ottman, who also had already set to sound the previous film, and Newton Thomas Sigel on the photo and impeccable production designer Grant Major.
Bryan Singer again surprised to be able to put order in a cast so numerous and talented, giving a chance to everyone to have their moment, but suffers in super value the share at the expense of a more consistent and deep history in many ways and especially in construction caricatured (both in interpretation and visual) of the great villain of the adventure, failing to represent a really powerful threat. This is allied to the fact the film have become entertained during his half. The fact that the great villain take the entire first half of the film to appear contribute to this. It is proved here the theory that less is more. At least the change of scenery, new powers of the new characters and a greater magnificence of the work contribute to the film become a great fun.