Honestly, that Magneto thing is a good catch.
And it becomes all the more frustrating that the less sympathetic Magneto gets, the more Xavier insists he\'s still good deep down. The whole \'Xavier trying to save Magneto\' montage actually emphasised just how many times Magneto has gone back to being a villain after his countless face turns.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."
@jakobits: It could have been done differently. If their intentions were to keep Magneto as a sympathetic antagonist having him be responsible for the majority of the destruction in the film was just a bad way to go. One missed opportunity I think was not having Magneto show regret or remorse for his actions. As a man who lost his family I think he could have regained some sympathy if he realized he caused many people to lose their families too and gave himself up as a form of atonement (effectively putting Magneto on the shelf for when Fox wants to use him again and shows the goodness he still has).
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Overall a good movie, but I was left disappointed by its direction
I was anticipating X-Men Apocalypse since I saw Days of Future Past. I loved that movie and was expecting a strong finish to the First Class trilogy. I don't think it crashed or burned in anyway. Apocalypse was still pretty good movie, even if it is the weakest of the new Trilogy. I was happy with Cyclops and Jean Grey. This was the first time they were developed outside of Wolverine's character and as a result they felt more like actual characters than they ever did in the original trilogy.
Charles was great and this movie ends his character arc well. I think he had the best character arc in First Class trilogy. Quicksilver got another awesome speed scene and his character added needed humor where it was needed to lighten things up when things were getting too heavy. The plot was straight forward enough to follow and I can honestly say I was never bored during the movie. The family theme was handled pretty well. I liked the action scenes we got for the most part.
Now here is where it left me wanting. One thing X-Men films did right was give us good villains or three dimensional ones. Apocalypse wasn't one of them, which surprised me. Despite promising us he wouldn't be a generic doomsday villain he is sadly one. Apocalypse is definitely powerful enough to be a threat. I would argue he was made too powerful that his rather straight forward plan should have worked, but the story didn't do a good enough job to explain to us why he is waiting to enact his plan. Here is where fleshing out his character could have helped. His strongest of the fittest philosophy could have made him a interesting character, but he just didn't get enough time devoted to his character.
That goes into another weakness for me. It spent too much time on Magneto, who was already a well fleshed out character. Out of all the antagonists in this film he gets all the focus and development, leaving Apocalypse, Storm, Angel, and Psylocke as more plot devices. Magneto is overused and he is becoming less sympathetic with each outing. Xavier's hope for his old friend to turn it around feels frustrating to watch, since Magneto can kill millions and still get a free pace. Weapon X act while cool served no purpose in the story and only confuses things since we have no idea how Wolverine still ended up in Weapons X even though Raven saved him in the last movie. I wish they had just made Wolverine a horsemen and had Apocalypse give him the adamantium to make it fit into the plot more and not need to worry about flesh out one horsemen (he has enough development that audience would care even if he didn't get any in this movie). Mystique/Raven I'm neutral to. Didn't dislike or like her in this. I really liked Raven in last movie. I was glad to see she didn't steal as much screen time as trailers made it out to be.
Despite all these problems I had it didn't make me hate the movie. It was still good, but it was disappointed it didn't live up to its potential.