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Rating: 5/10 (10 June 2016)

X-Men: Apocalypse is the follow-up to the previous X-Men movie, 'Days of Future Past'. It follows the X-Men as the first mutant ever, Apocalypse, reawakens and seeks to destroy the world and create a better one from it.
For the most part I had fun watching this movie. The action was good most of the time, and the special effects were pretty great, as expected. And for the most part the story was, while not horribly original, in place and understandable.
What I didn't like was how at times the movie could be inconsistent. I noticed one point in particular where a character uses some kind of laser whip and cuts a giant slab of rock in half with it, then wraps it around some guy's neck. But the guy doesn't lose his head for some reason. Also, the opening scene was a little weird. While I liked it overall, there were a few things that just didn't make sense. Apocalypse himself was kind of dumb, particularly in his character design and the way he spoke. His voice just kept changing, which made it look like Bryan Singer was just trying to use stupid cheap methods to make the audience intimidated.
The movie was a little rushed at points, specifically more towards the beginning when one of the characters in recruiting people to join his team. None of the characters really had any reason to join the guy, and in the end it didn't matter anyways.
My biggest issue with this movie though is that it's just a really average movie. The acting was just good, nothing special. The character development was just good, nothing special. Even in the way the movie was shot, through camera-work and the such was all just so average. To top it off, it was loaded with overdone, unrealistic dialogue that we seem to see in all movies nowadays, again, making that aspect of it average as well. I'm not saying all the dialogue was bad, but a lot of it wasn't anything special. There it is again. Nothing special.
Overall, in case you haven't already figured this out, the movie is nothing special. Sure, there are good parts and bad parts, but when it comes down to it it's just an average movie. In the end I would only recommend this movie if your a fan of the X-Men universe.