Better than First Class but not as good as Days of Future Past

Rating: 8/10 (27 December 2019)

Enjoyed it quite a bit. Apocalypse really made me think heavily of the Stargate sci fi series. Loved that. He really nailed that holier than thou Egyptian god or Goa'uld god from Stargate feel. The guy who played Apocalypse is actually one of our best actors of this decade. He was in Ex Machina too.
So I had a lot of dislike for First Class, because it was so...melodramatic...and even had a grey gloomy depressing feel to it at times. This one, Apocalypse, and Days of Future Past...these two had far more of the good stuff and far less of that lame grey stuff. You know what I mean. Those scenes where you are all like rolling your eyes and glancing at the clock wondering how long they are going to drag this boring scene out.
There are times in so many of the X-men movies when it seems almost like they are trying to make a scene be from a horror movie. Not in scariness, just in pain and dread and "oh how horrible for the character that this happened to them". Yuck. They need to take a lesson from movies like CA The First Avenger and Infinity War. I don't know why the writers of these X-men movies so often try to put that "dread" feel into these films. Doesn't make sense considering that those are the worst scenes in them. I know they want us to believe that anything can happen including characters being killed off, so that we will actually worry about the characters, but they try way too hard with that doom and gloom in many X-men movies.
The main reason why people hated X3 Last Stand was because of them killing off favorite characters and turning other favorite characters evil. Also that dread-atmosphere they very much over-succeeded in portraying. Plenty of critics have said they disliked it for other reasons, but I believe this was the real primary reason.
Enough ranting. This movie was pretty enjoyable and one of the better of the X-men movies in my opinion.