Not disappointing but not amazing.

Rating: 7/10 (27 May 2016)

The X-men have been my favorite Marvel, no my favorite Superhero team for as long as I can remember so whilst I've been disappointed in the past with these movies I really had high hopes for this one. While it wasn't the AMAZING thrillfest I had hoped for it also didn't leave me feeling disappointed all that much either. What I'll try to do is break down a few pros and cons here.
Pros: Evan Peters as Quicksilver once again stole the show. Not only did he solidify himself as a complete badass in this movie but he also delivered near all the comedic relief that a movie like this truly needs. You could also sense just how much he was troubled by the fact Magneto is his father but he's never known him as well. I feel like Peters has definitely done the best job as this character and I hope we continue to see him in future releases.
Sophie Turner does an amazing job as Jean Grey. I love her from the Game of Thrones television show and she fits in wonderfully as Jean. She plays the character well and you can see how troubled she is by her struggle with the powers inside her and sense the closeness between her and Xavier. We also are introduced to Kodi Smit-McPhee as Nightcrawler who was very likable and also added more humor to the movie.
Fassbender and McAvoy do wonderful jobs as Magneto and Xavier once again and the on screen chemistry is just as good as their previous movies. You really can't go wrong with these guys as their roles.
The action sequences are pretty great and the CGI doesn't feel overly done. They also made this film much bloodier when we see Wolverine as Weapon X completely massacre Stryker's entire team. Yes, I said massacre...he kills them all...violently.
They take a dig at the 3rd X-Men movie. Yeah, they went there.
Jean goes full Phoenix in this movie.
Their is an after credit scene that sets up the next Wolverine movie.
Cons: We don't see enough of the other 3 of the Four Horsemen. We know Magneto's whole story but we don't really see enough of Angel, Psylocke and Storm to know their stories and we don't even see them in action for long. These are supposed to be Apocalypse's soldiers and yet they don't seem all that tough even with him enhancing their powers.
Speaking of Apocalypse, nothing about him even seems all that powerful in this movie. He clearly has the power to turn anything to dust yet he has to have people fight for him? Can he not do that to mutants because if he could he would just kill the X-Men right then and there and be done with it. Instead we see the horsemen fight them and lose fairly quickly and he has to put up a shield to keep their barrage of attacks at bay.
I'm not sure how I feel about them throwing out Origins:Wolverine.
So structures across the entire planet were just destroyed. Cities flattened by Magneto....and we're to expect the whole world just gets rebuilt after that? Sure Magneto and Jean magically rebuild the mansion from scratch but I imagine the world isn't just gonna quickly recover from that.
Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique. Yeah, didn't do it for me this time. Sorry.
Overall this was really worth a watch. It's not horrible but not amazing so it gets a 7 from me. I enjoyed it fully and thought my $9.75 for a 3D ticket was worth it. Weirdly though I went to the 2nd showing at 8:15pm the day before "release" and was the only one in the theater.