Just got back from the Opening Day matinée and...

Rating: 9/10 (27 May 2016)

...there were only nine other people besides myself in the theater!
For once, however, I do not regard that as ill-tidings of a box office flop. Because as far as I could see, all ten of us enjoyed it, immensely. Everybody certainly stayed glued to their seats till the ending credits!
Anyway; the movie begins in ancient Egypt during the 37th century BC. En Sabah Nur, the mutant Pharoah, is overthrown by some of his normal human guards who know that he is no god in the divine sense. Unfortunately, he accidentally gets revived in the 20th century by CIA Agent Moira McTaggart! More specifically, 1983 (ten years after the events of X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST).
A lot of things have changed in that time. For one thing; Magneto has reformed to the point where's he a steel mill worker in Poland, with a wife and nine year-old daughter, Nina! For another; Mystique is no longer impersonating William Stryker due to the fact the real one has not only resurfaced. He's also somehow latched on to Wolverine (Hugh Jackman, in an uncredited farewell appearance in the role...if one is to believe all the advance rumors), once again!
Of course, once again, mutaphobic humans (in the form of small town Polish cops) are responsible for the deaths of Magneto's loved ones. Persuading him to join forces with En Sabah Nur and the other Three Horsemen. One of them is a relatively new addition to the cast of movie mutants: Olivia Munn as Psylocke. Sexy blue leotard and matching thigh-high boots, included! The other two are a teenage Ororo "Storm" Munro (played by Alexandra Shipp) and a Warren Worthington III (played by Ben Hardy) somehow born twenty years earlier than the Angel character in X-MEN 3!*
*Unless the temporal divergence in the previous film caused Warren Worthington Jr. to inherit the angelic wings.
I won't spoil the rest of it. Suffice it to say that the special effects and the social commentary, underlying the superheroics, are as top-notch as ever. My only nitpick--hence the one star deduction--is the hindsighted critique of STAR WARS: ROTJ. With all due respect to Ms. Jean Grey (played by Sophie Turner)? There was nothing wrong with _any_ of the movies in the original SW trilogy! They were each equally good, as they were originally shown in theaters, from 1977 to 1983. It's only George Lucas' needless ret-conning, in 1997, that screwed them up!
In short, then: go see X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. I guarantee you'll have a great time. Up to and including the rather...sinister epilogue.