Not DOFP but still a great installment into the franchise that is rewarding and sets up the future of the series.

Rating: 9/10 (27 May 2016)

Apocalypse is a great mix of what we've come to see from the current trilogy and like the third part in any series it takes shots at itself in great ways while still holding a serious tone.
Some of the highlights of the film include the new batch of X-Men of Jubilee, Cyclops, Night crawler and Jean Grey. The overall humor in the film could be the best of any X-Men movie in the series with several cleverly placed comments.
The set up for future chapters in the series, and ultimately the ending scene as well as the post credit scenes should have any fan of the comics excited about the movie and the future of the franchise.
The villain in the series is the pen ultimate villain of the X-Men comic books and although I didn't feel he was done justice given how menacing he is in the 2D world, I felt they did a good job bringing him into the franchise and ultimately creating a legitimate threat against the X-Men as a whole.
All in all the movie is in the upper echelon of all comic book movies, and although it's not my personal favorite in the series it holds it's own and has more mature tone then most of the bubble gum comic movies we see these days.