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"X-Men: Apocalypse" is the worst kind of superhero film: overly-long, overly-serious, with a giant cast you can't follow spitting out lines that reach too far without purpose. It's a movie where you can see the exhaustion of the actors, some new, some old, who go through the motions and collect a payday. Need Wolverine? OK, we'll provide him for one scene. Let's make a Phoenix reference, and make Magneto even more distrustful of humans while we're at it. At the same time, let's ignore the established canon. The villain Apocalypse should be a pretty easy sell for Marvel fans. The "first mutant" has a cool origin and a squad of mini-bosses around him at all times, but he's ruined here with a portrayal that just has him walking slowly and suggesting his immense power. Everyone trembles! The use of actual X-Men as his four horseman seems like a need to provide even more costumed characters to the ballooned cast, and it leads to of-course-you-saw-that-coming moments where they eventually turn on him in the end. Some characters, like Olivia Munn's Psylocke, serve no point other than to grimace to the camera and wear the outfit the comic-con crowd wants. In some Marvel movies a city is under attack. The Avengers save New York, The X-Men save Cuba, or Washington D.C...etc. In this one the entire world is at threat, and we watch as lots of major cities start to crumble away due to Magneto's power. What happens next? What reference is ever made to this cataclysmic event later? How did those cities rebuild? It's all washed away in a two sentence epilogue. I think everyone involved in this movie knew it was a dud, and it's best to just forget the whole thing. Cut the check and run. My advice? Skip this, and check out the much better, animated "X-Men '97" series which makes the Apocalypse story truly engaging. This one? It stinks!