So much wasted potential....

Rating: 7/10 (26 May 2014)

I had been looking forward to this movie for a long time. The previews made it look so epic and it turned out just so so. I personally think First Class was superior. I know a lot of people are bashing Brian Singer just to bash him but the man ruined Night Crawler and I really don't think he should have been a part of the film and I would have preferred it if they had just pretended like the earlier Xmen films never happened and completely started over. They could've still used Patrick Stewart and the other actors but just abandoned the story lines, which I guess they kind of did.
They didn't do a very good job of connecting things. There are far to many inconsistencies to list. I think what aggravates me most is how did they fail to tie in the post credits scene to The Wolverine with it? I can understand having trouble with movies released almost a decade before they knew they would need to tie things together, but not with a movie as recent as Wolverine. They seriously made James Mangold drop Wolverine receiving his mask and gloves so they could include a scene that doesn't even make sense.
I wanted to see Wolverine take out one of the Sentinels but they made it impossible.
I like Jennifer Lawrence but she shouldn't have been the focus.
Magneto gaining complete control of the Sentinels was just stupid. At most the railroad tracks he inserted would have simply given him control of their movement.
How is Xmen Apocalypse going to take place in the 1980's if DOFP ended in the future?
I better see Rogue fly in the next one. Hopefully with True Blood being done Anna Paquin will get more screen time.