Can Bryan Singer undo this movie, Please?

Rating: 4/10 (25 May 2016)

The first 10 minutes or so are quite exciting but what follows is not so much. Every time following that when things seem to start picking up The movie screeches to a halt again.
What this movie is trying to do is reboot the X-Men again, bringing in the characters from the original Trilogy as their younger selves.
I can't help but compare this to the much better movie X-Men: First Class which managed to not only introduce us to its cast of characters but also do so in a fun way.
Take that scene in First Class where Havok was being trained to hit targets and fails miserably with some fitting music in the background. Nothing even remotely as fun happens in this movie.
Magneto is back again, and this time he's playing a henchman for the main big bad Apocalypse and I could respect him as a bad guy a bit more if he wasn't so easily swayed in one direction or another.
Some random humans kill his family? Magneto wants to destroy the world. A quick speech from Mystique? No longer wants to. Someone messes up his order at a restaurant? He wants to destroy it again. OK that last part didn't happen but its still pretty silly how he was handled.
For some baffling reason they decided to bring back Moria from First Class; why? I still have no idea. It literally added nothing to the movie at all. Bryan decided to undo the sacrifice Prof X made at the end of the first movie for the sheer hell of it.
He didn't stop there, though. He also undid the weight of the ending of the last movie too! Remember when in Days of Future Past Mystique prevented Wolverine from being taken in by Agent Stryker? Well he still ended up with him making that ending entirely moot.
Sophie Turner was clearly miscast as Jean Grey, As much as I like her on game of thrones - she was not the right choice for the role. With her boring stare at Prof X as he telepathically cries for help. "Meh i'll do it in a minute after I apply some more make up!"
The pacing of this movie is just horrendous, drags on way too long and when it finally gets to the action packed ending you no longer care.
The worst of it is the movie didn't feel like it did anything new, even the Quicksilver part just felt like a copy of something that has been done better before.
In summary, this is a poor followup to X-Men: First Class and Days of Future Past. Its slow, boring and completely devoid of fun.