Everything Wrong With X-Men: Apocalypse

'X-Men Apocalypse. Did you see it? We did. Boy, how we didn't like it. You will probably pick up [...]

"X-Men Apocalypse. Did you see it? We did. Boy, how we didn't like it. You will probably pick up on that listening to the sins."

CinemaSins tells us everything that's wrong with the latest X-Men movie in under 20 minutes in their latest video, counting a total of 150 sins and a sentence of "One More Time With Feeling."

But was there anything right with X-Men: Apocalypse?

Other than the incredibly confusing timeline, a storyline that seemed a bit too similar to director Bryan Singer's past X-Men movies, and an underused big bad with no real stakes attached to him, an insult to the all-might Psylocke, the movie was rather entertaining at best.

Especially when Apocalypse used his molecular cell destroying powers to gleefully design the costumes of his four horsemen out of sand before he reigned down on planet Earth in hopes of wiping every living thing off the planet.

Jubilee didn't even get her name said outloud and they left the cool '80s montage mall scene on the cutting room floor.

X-Men Apocalypse IMAX Poster
(Photo: 20th Century Fox)

Althought X-Men: Apocalypse seemed more like the Mystique show, we can't deny that Quicksilver's scene was perfection and we finally learned how past Professor X lost his glorious hair.

Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshiped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel's X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) with the help of Professor X (James McAvoy) must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction.

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