Worst X-Men movie since "Origins: Wolverine".

Rating: 4/10 (21 May 2016)

I didn't have huge expectations, but I was hoping to enjoy this movie at least more than "Batman v Superman". Well, I was being naive, apparently. "Apocalypse" is the worst comic book film of the year so far, and the worst movie from the X-Men franchise since "Origins: Wolverine".
There are a lot of things that don't work here (uninventive fight scenes, extremely cringe-worthy and dumbed-down dialogue, a messy plot) but, as I've always said, the pillars in any film (and especially any comic book film) are the characters, and they don't work here. At all. Apocalypse is one-dimensional, dull and derivative. Magneto goes through the exact same path that we've already seen in previous movies, and it's gotten extremely predictable and tiresome. Beast's role is virtually non-existent. Xavier has lost everything that made him interesting in "First Class". Wolverine's cameo is pointless. Storm, Psylocke and Angel are criminally butchered by a writer who obviously doesn't give a f**k about the source material. They still don't get how the Phoenix force should work. Nightcrawler has become nothing more than a device to transport people into places. And Jennifer Lawrence gives the most lifeless iteration of Mystique we've ever seen on screen. She does literally nothing during the whole movie. The only character who shines is, once again, Quicksilver, who gives us the best scene hands down, although it isn't as surprising as it was in "Days of Future past".
I've repeatedly read some fans of the "X-Men" franchise defending it over other comic book-based film series because "the X-Men saga includes mature and deep character studies". Well, I invite you guys to watch "X-Men: Apocalypse" and reassert that statement, if you have balls. It's a mishmash of CGI with an unforgivable lack of heart and emotion.