X-Men: On Crutches

Rating: 5/10 (6 June 2016)

I am and I was never a great superheroes-comics reader (I was more into fantasy and sci-fi stuff a la Jodorowsky/Giménez). So as a no specialist of DC or Marvel or whatever superhero-cosmos there may be existing I guess I can dare to say Iam a little more objective to all the superhero-movies as a hardcore-fan.
Imo the quality of Marvel/DC movie-adaption drops fast - Batman vs. Superman, Fantastic Four, Captain America Civil War and yes, the last part of the X-Men franchise name it they are at best average entertaining stuff and lose compared to their predecessors.
The issue isn't imo the acting, editing, cgi-quality or other "technical" parts - ofc that's all well done or at least sufficient executed but the real and BIG issue is - the plot, the story and yes, some of those movies with that a shallow story-line are far too loooooooooong. Less would be more - cutted to 100 min maybe those movies wouldn't be so boring and bored I was (not the whole time but way too much).
So back to X-Men: the story is fast summarized, the good and the bad mutants are gathering their troops, after grouping up the first little fights after that the endboss-fight with the supervillain in-between somewhere Stryker and/or other "normal" guys do interfere, end-credits, closing of the curtain.
Also how the super-villain Apocalypse was beaten is implausible - that dude just could have transformed his enemies to sand...
Imo the first trilogy was far more interesting story-wise. This movie has no story the other movies didn't already tell us over and over again. And this switching of Magneto from good to bad and from bad to good - really this guys sucks, be a villain or be a good guy, maybe change your mind once, but not in almost every movie/struggle...
Anyway Antman and Deadpool are the positive surprises and I enjoyed those 2 movies bigtime, both beat easy everything the "big players" of the superhero-cosmos provided with their last endeavors.
Last words: Not unwatchable but - redundant. The only important info for me was how Professor X lost his hair ;) Only recommended for die-hard-fans.