Frustrating

Rating: 7/10 (4 July 2014)

This movie kind of puts the X-Men continuity into weird territory. First Class made me care more about the characters than all but the very best stories from the comics. In this movie, we go back and forth between the young X-Men of Matthew Vaughn's film and the dismal looking Bryan Singer group. I'd rather just follow the story from where Vaughn left off. This movie starts in the furthest future of the team, as the sentinels have just about killed off every mutant. Professor X and Magneto join together to send Wolverine to the past and get everyone to work together to stop the darkest timeline. What I cared about most in this story is the redemption it kept teasing for Eric and Raven. Every scene she was in, I kept wanting her to change her mind and come back with Charles. There was even a line from the future Magneto as he was dying where he regrets all the years they fought each other. That was what I wanted to see most--everyone finally realize they would be better off working together. But these are stubborn characters and we will have to wait for the next movie to know if it works out. It will be hard to care about X-Men: Apocalypse if we don't get to see the cast from First Class again, but I am interested to see where it goes.