An incredible villain and a likable hero, but at the same time many unsatisfying characters and an unsatisfying ending

Rating: 5/10 (27 May 2016)

SPOILER ALERT! X-men Apocalypse is the series' 3rd installment after it all started again with "X-men: First Class" and follows the events of "The Days of the Future Past". To remind you of where everything was left in the previous sequel, Magneto tried to kill the President near White House and this was broadcast in all TV channels. Unsurprisingly the world got to know mutants and this was especially an unpleasant surprise for people to meet a mutant like Magneto who is an all- powerful evil who can easily kill millions in a split-second.
Magneto wanted to stop being Magneto and started a new life in Poland in this movie. He has a nice home with a garden full of animals, a loving wife and a sweet daughter. Then everything changes when he tries to save a colleague and his true identity gets revealed. For this reason his neighbors kidnap his daughter. Magneto remains calm and tries to retrieve his daughter from their hands giving himself up, however one excited fellow shoots his wife and daughter with a single arrow and then Magneto has nothing left to live for and directly becomes the evil he was before.
The reason for the earthquake is another mutant, the first mutant, Apocalypse. The one that the Bible is referring to apparently. He lived 3600 B.C. in Egypt and he was frozen during a process which made sure that he would obtain a mutant's skill which is just like Wolverine's, meaning his scars would instantly get healed and he would be immortal. A cult praying to the skill transferring machine activates the machine again and Apocalypse wakes up from hibernation in 1980s just during cold war. After he is reborn he starts exploring around. He touches a TV's screen and obtains information about the world including a perfect English. I wish I had this skill, it would be invaluable. Apocalypse thinks that people are believing in their false Gods and these false Gods are not fit to run the world, meaning that this world, Apocalypse's world, is left to people who are incapable of running anything at all. Apocalypse has arisen again to stop this non-sense and give the world back to the people who deserve to live in it and he wants to unleash them from their chains. He has a point though especially firing all the nuclear weapons to space and criticizing people's addiction to materialism. To confess, Apocalypse is one hell of a villain and you cannot prevent yourself from liking this omnipotent mutant who has his pretty right motives and who has a point about him being perfect and some people being incapable of running things around.
Apocalypse gathers an army of mutants just like the old times and the mutants he chooses become more powerful after he bestows his skill-augmenting skills upon them. Yes he has such a skill and yes it is damn cool. After Magneto's loss Magneto is prone to being the evil himself again and Apocalypse is really good at convincing. Magneto gets to demolish the remains of Auschwitz and after that joins Apocalypse. The other three co-villains are Storm, Angel and Psylocke. They are all more like X-men scum meaning teenagers having teen problems etc. I did not like them a tiny bit. Magneto is the only actually deserving villain in that crew and the rest would not be chosen by a bad-ass like Apocalypse. They are the exact people Apocalypse would hate and therefore this choice of mutants was poorly made. They were not powerful and not cool at all.
On the other hand we get to meet the young Scott and Jean. They meet each other and like each other since both of them are regarded as creeps around Doctor X's school for talented children. This is also another thing we got used to in superhero movies. Two hated super heroes get to know each other starting to like one another etc. Sophie Turner is damn hot and this is her first big movie. I'm sure we will see her in many movies to come. It was a bit odd to see her together with Jennifer Lawrence. Sophie Turner will be the new Jennifer Lawrence and it was so obvious in this movie. Jean and Scott are not interesting characters, they are just so stereotypical wannabe characters, created to charm the teenagers of today. SO LAME! I literally hate these characters who the writers put in movies just so that they attract today's youth. I hate whiny characters. Whenever I think of Jean in the movie I imagine of Sophie Turner crying. God, please stop being such a whiny teenager. Nevertheless, her last move was pretty darn cool walking mid-air twisting with Apocalypse's mind unleashing her brilliant psychic skills. I personally liked that sequence although my friend told me that it was such a bad ending to such a great villain. However on the bright side we have Quicksilver, he was so cool in the previous title and he is so cool again. There is again a great scene with him in the lead. God, this character should have his own movie, it would be so much better than the X-Men movies.
On the other hand we have got Professor Xavier again. God, I grew to hate this character so much. James McAvoy could not be more appalling. I hate his portrayal of Charles Xavier. Patrick Stewart is dearly missed. I don't even want to talk about James McAvoy's Xavier cause it's utterly boring. Another whiny and not charming character in this series.
Overall, the movie has a perfect villain with many bad co-villains and teenage mutants(unfortunately not ninja turtles). The story has a nice body but overall it is not convincing in its turning points. Some great characters and a great villain do not make a fine movie because of the really shitty characters and an unconvincing story.