Nothing new with wasted characters

Rating: 4/10 (29 May 2016)

I just checked and the poster for this film has 12 characters on it. But i can only think of 4 or 5 of those characters that have more than one line of dialogue in this film. This is where the film fails and once again Singer chooses to have characters there for window dressing only. Character motivation drives a story and makes the viewer engage with the characters. I felt no engagement with any of the them, even Magneto who spent a large portion of this film floating around. If someone can understand why Storm, Psylocke and Angel joined Apocalypse then please let me know because due to their lack of dialogue (i think Angel said two lines, Psylocke two and Storm maybe 4). JLaw is playing the reluctant hero (again) and you could have easily swapped her characters of Mystique and Katniss around without anyone noticing, but she really did seem to be going through the motions on this one. This really did scream of the studio wanting her character to have a larger role in the film just because it's JLaw. Xavier is coming across as more arrogant as the movies progress making him a much less likable character, i put this down to direction and James McAvoy's portrayal as Sir Patrick Stewart although confident was always humble in his portrayal. The new cast of mutants make an OK go of it but again due to lack of interaction left me feeling numb to their fate. I could go on but the more i think about it the more disappointed i become. On a plus side, i have honestly sent 10 minutes trying to think of a positive point and i can't. CGI maybe?