Fun If Equally Messy

Rating: 6/10 (2 June 2016)

In equal measure there's plenty to entertain, plenty that's bang average & also potential tricks that were missed, so therefore it's completely understandable why it appears to have received such a middling critical reception.
Now lets start with the positives, I thought the young cast showed great promise for future films with Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan & Kodi Smitt-McPhee as the young mutants Jean Grey, Cyclops & Nightcrawler respectively putting in memorable if brief on screen performances, Evan Peters is again truly wonderful as Quicksilver & pretty much nails every line of dialogue with the best action coming from his special abilities & proves to Marvel what a waste they made of their interpretation of the character in Avengers: Age of Ultron, that Xavier/Magneto dynamic is still very well done (if lacking further depth) & always entertaining to watch thanks to the good work of James McAvoy & Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence has glimpses of that Hunger Games pivotal heroine but they are all too fleeting, which can also be said for the likes of Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy/Beast as he's given hardly anything to do & it goes without saying that lots of characters kind of fall by the wayside (namely three of the 'Horsemen' Storm, Angel who literally does so & Psylocke although I can't fault Olivia Munn) so there is certainly a case of mutant overload in play, also what was the point of that Wolverine moment in the film?! It should have been an awesome moment but I felt deflated after watching it, partially because I knew it was going to occur no thanks to the trailer & also with how he was utilized it seemed a waste of his & our time, Rose Byrne really could have not been in the film & you wouldn't of noticed & despite Oscar Isaac's best efforts his villain seems a bit generic & is maybe slightly lost underneath all that makeup, also I felt an important character death moment was handled wrongly & should've been utilized to better effect.
So overall there's stuff to enjoy but equally enough to frustrate, so to sum up if we're talking where it stands this year among the big superhero teams ups, it's not as slick as Captain America: Civil War but it's more intentionally fun than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, also a further hello to Jason Isaacs.