X-Men Franchise Needs to End

Rating: 4/10 (31 May 2016)

Three big superhero movies this summer thus far: Captain America, Batman vs Superman and X-Men: Apocalypse. Out of the three - only Captain American hit the mark. Like SVB - this movie lacks the characterization, humanity and story that lives in the other end of the Marvel universe.
The acting is sub par. But in the actors defense, the script does not leave a lot of room for growth. None of the X-Men (or villains) are worth caring about.
The script is terrible. The X-Men vs mankind theme has gotten so old. Where the Capt America, Thor, and Iron Man movies excel is because they are fighting for justice and to keep people safe. This movie (and the others) are basically always about the inner battle between the same group of mutants over and over and over. How many times is Magneto going to kill thousands (and he kills thousands upon thousands in this movie) and then Xavier going to say he sees good in him and suddenly he is back in the X-Men's good graces. Really? Magneto murdered thousands in this film and then walks away without being held accountable. Almost thought he was Secretary of State.
Then the long-long-long over shot, silly, juvenile scene where Quicksilver saves all of the Xavier students from an explosion. My niece thought that it was funny - I felt that is was a drawn out mess and that the same message could have been shown with him saving a few children - rather than showing almost every single child in the school.
Then, of course, we have to have a cameo of the worse X-Man in the franchise - Wolverine. The guy who went from comic book action hero to mass murder in the movies. The guy who kills without a conscience and goes on murder sprees. The guy (who if the writers wanted to actually write about why human and mutants are at odds) creates the fear and distrust that humans would have.
After seeing this one - I thought "Batman vs Superman was better" and that was a mess.
Not recommended.