Spit Spot

Rating: 3/10 (17 December 2016)

The story is a condensed mishmash of different comic book Apocalypse stories, with some characters smashed together into Apocalypse. It doesn't work well.
It seems the most prevalent mutant power is bad acting. Some of the people who play main characters are decent actors, but, unfortunately, some of the people who play main characters aren't.
Overall, the movie has too many models trying to be actors.
Gene doesn't talk. She murmurs all her lines.
Professor Xavier tries too hard to be British. Spit spot? Is this Mary Poppins? There are a lot of "I'm projecting my powers boy am I cool", overused motions: Spread arms down, head back, scream; spread arms up, head back, scream; throw arm out, cock head; hop step, run into action.
Speed boy has the generic, speedster sarcasm. His nonchalant, waste lots of time style ends up getting someone killed. If speedy had gone right to work saving people, he would have saved blonde model boy. But nobody calls Speedy on it.
Magneto is back to awesome - even before his powers are amplified. For some reason, when he faced the Sentinels, all he could do was make haphazard barriers of bits of metal. He must have forgotten about using metal, even tiny objects, as weapons.
Magneto's motivation, however, isn't awesome. It's the generic he lost his wife and daughter. He, as a leader, falling so easily to obeying A is ridiculous.
How does an earthquake in Egypt powerful enough to be felt in Poland not damage the nearby area? Tons of rocks were shifting, yet there was no sign of damage just a few feet above all that movement. And people nearby don't even notice.
Apocalypse needs Magneto to pull up all of man's constructions. A tells Magneto to do that right after A does it. Why does he need Magneto? I had to watch this in three pieces. I couldn't take it all at once.
It seems the directors/producers who make the X-Men movies like having multiple battles at the same time. That way there's no focus on any one battle - they're all pretty lame. There's a lot of CGI, though. All the good guys intone the generic "we're with friends" blather.
The final part of the final fight is executed in "super cool" slo mo. Gene slowly walks, then she does the arm extended down, throw head back, scream (in a murmur) cool project her powers.
Magneto helps them rebuild the school, then he's off to become evil again.
There's cool music playing over a lame speech "forget everything you know" by Mystique as she does the standard walk while looking sideways over her shoulder - see, that's cooooooooooooool.
A few people growl - this is gonna be so coooooooooooooool.
That's the end. Maybe being so generic you're lame is the prevalent mutant power.