It Gets Better

Rating: 5/10 (12 June 2016)

The joke in the movie about part threes being the worst of their series might be talking about the original X-Men trilogy (and a jab against Director Singer not at the helm of The Last Stand) but it certainly applies here, as well.
X-Men: Apocalypse, hopefully the conclusion of the X-Babies set, was okay to begin with. Just the run of the mill X-Men movie and was followed by more the same: younger cast recruiting and developing other mutant powers. And then the second half kicked in and it did get better.
Still the movie "reboot" series seems to have run its course. I think I, like the movie watching public (SEE: Box Office receipts,) have had its fill of the "newbies" learning to work together, fight, learn to work together again and repeat. Time for yet another reboot, hopefully including a merger with Disney and the Avengers. Now who wouldn't wanna see that?
Oh, and this movie? Well, like Blade: Trinity, they pull out the big gun from thousands of years ago in the form of Apocalypse who just wants to wipe the slate clean. Will the troubled X-Men work together to defeat him?
The movie has so many problems in the first half, but makes up for it so much in the second half that the movie's actually recommended. Still think they should end it here. We're just backpedaling over and over repetitive ground.
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Final thoughts: Not really spoiler since the trailer gave it away, but Wolverine's appearance was actually one of the best scenes of the movie and makes way for a fantastic R-Rated Wolverine movie. Funny, he had no lines, was in the movie for probably a 50th of the running time and yet, got me psyched for the next Wolverine Rated-R film. Snikt!