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When Apocalypse ( Oscar Isaac ), the world's oldest and most powerful mutant, awakens after centuries of forced slumber, he determi...

When Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac), the world's oldest and most powerful mutant, awakens after centuries of forced slumber, he determines to reclaim his former throne as ruler of all mankind. And his first goal is to seek out other highly-skilled mutants to assist him. Recruiting the ambitious Psylocke (Olivia Munn), the dejected Angel (Ben Hardy), the disillusioned Storm (Alexandra Shipp), and the vengeful Magneto (Michael Fassbender), Apocalypse concocts an annihilative plan to reshape humanity to his liking. But Professor X (James McAvoy), his colleague Beast (Nicholas Hoult), and pupil Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters soon discover this new threat, and with the aid of former student Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) and newcomers Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee), Quicksilver (Evan Peters), and Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), confront Apocalypse and his followers in a cataclysmic battle for the very fate of Earth.

The acting is very good, and I have no qualms with the actors - they all played their roles incredibly well and Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy were as brilliant as ever. Evan Peters returns as Quicksilver once more to give us an amazing scene that tops the one from Days of Future Past. The newcomers are fantastic and exciting and we will certainly see them again in the future.

Some characters are wasted. Psylocke barely has any lines and just makes the weird face throughout the whole movie. I feel like all her "great" moments are in the trailers, so she was underwhelming. It definitely shows that she was a last minute edition to the movie because her character is terribly under developed. Angel is another prop, although his final fight scene with Nightcrawler is pretty dope. Jubilee did not need to be in this movie. She didn't even use her powers. Not ONCE.

This new storyline is essentially unguessable (and, perhaps, unmanageable), since the effects of "X-Men: Days of Future Past" included time travel and setting back the clock to an era before all the previous happenings. Although it creates a grand opportunity for the reinvention of characters and ideas, it comes dangerously close to simply repeating everything that came before it, just with younger actors and actresses and a few twists on mutant capabilities. The villain might be new - but not fresh, since he's curiously designed to look almost exactly like the Djinn from "Wishmaster," of which there were four features up through 2002 - yet the predicaments are disappointingly familiar. Some of the fight sequences are fun (though many border on what probably should have been R-rated material), but when the players and the outcomes are the same, the entertainment value is fleeting at best. Plus, when the greatest scene in the movie is the Quicksilver save, wherein he humorously moves about repositioning and rescuing people as time stands still - and it's practically identical to the sequence from the prior picture - it's evident that this newest X-Men adventure lacks the zest needed to justify its own existence.

Overall movie was good although movie starts a bit slow and I was a little confused and bored but after that the movie finally starts catching up to the expectation.

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