OK-ish film. Nothing great or new. Just another generic destruction movie that is the weakest of the rebooted X-Men trilogy

Rating: 5/10 (18 May 2016)

If the trailer of this movie made you apprehensive, you had every right to be because the movie is everything the trailer threatened to be- mediocre. Just when we thought that superhero movies were going to new places, we get X-Men: Apocalypse which firmly drags the genre back to mediocrity.Deadpool was wild (and incredibly enjoyable), BvS tried to be different(and failed miserably but still had style which this movie doesn't have) and Civil War was awesome (by being both different and great fun at the same time). But X-Men: Apocalypse doesn't even try to be different. It plods on with a run of the mill story and CGI heavy destruction that interests not one bit (the CGI too is varied. It swings between great to downright crappy). It is overloaded with characters that do not interact and are probably there only for fan-service. So Cyclops's brother dies and it is supposed to jolt you emotionally- only it doesn't. Why would I care about a character that I have hardly seen for 10 minutes in prior X:Men movies and whose interaction with his brother mostly happens off-screen? Simply put, there are a lot of characters but no character development. Olivia Munn as Psylocke is wasted (the lady has so few lines in the movie that at one point you wonder if she is speech impaired). Apocalypse's horsemen are supposed to be super powerful but all they do is act as musclemen and nothing more. Archangel has as much charisma as a mannequin and save for a mild effort at a back story, Storm hasn't much to boast about either. Only Magneto has some semblance of character development but even that feels stale- how many times do we need to see Magneto decide to be the bad guy because his family is killed only to flip sides at the end to join forces with the good guys? This has been happening like forever (since X:2 came out that is). James McAvoy is his usual self as Professor Xavier and the only reason Mystique is so important to the story is because she is played by Jennifer Lawrence (who gives her best phoned-it-in performance). You got to wonder how a shape shifter is such a big deal in a battle among crazy powered freaks (I mean one stroke from Psylocke and she is minced meat) but hey, just because it's Jennifer Lawrence, screw logic. And whats with Apocalypse's make up? The guy looks more like Ivan Ooze from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and the character is incredibly one dimensional- just one of your generic bad guys that wants to end the world.
Civil War has set the bar high for superhero movies but X-Men: Apocalypse firmly brings it down. The plot is messy and is filled with way too many characters than it can handle. The climatic battle is filled with uninteresting mindless carnage more in the lines of Michael Bay and Ronald Emmerich. The coolest (and the best part) is Quicksilver's super fast evacuation of the X-Mansion. It's really an extension of the scene in DOFP but is longer here and still super cool. We do get a cameo from Wolverine (clearly not in his best shape) but hey, Wolverine is Wolverine right?
If you are a casual fan of the X-men (like me), you will find this flick OK-sh (if you are a die hard fan, you will probably love the film and hate me) but as a casual viewer (as most outside the U.S are), you might find it underwhelming- a sense of been there, seen that.
Oh and by the way, we do get a post credit scene which serves no purpose at all and is just there because Marvel made it cool to have post-credit scenes. It is just vague and doesn't actually mean anything significant