X-Men: Apocalypse

It wasn't terrible, and I don't think it entirely deserves its dismal 47 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But it should serve as a wake-up call regarding the franchise's future direction.

The set-up is sometimes quite intriguing. Especially when it features Michael Fassbender as Magneto (massively magnetic).

Compared to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (a convoluted snore) or Captain America: Civil War (bombastic and contrived) X-Men: Apocalypse is the one that's worth the price of admission.

I still liked his latest X-Men effort quite a bit, flaws and all, the aspirations fueling it almost as super as they are heroic.

Time for X to take some zzzz, perhaps.

The X-Men franchise gets bigger with Apocalypse, which brings the mutants face-to-face with the end of the world ... but the story lacks any danger.

Much of the film is spent either reminding and recalling previous events in other films, or foreshadowing events that are due to happen in a future sequel. The sheer quantity of character threads fracture the film’s structure.

It’s hard to ignore how the film turns a blind eye to several glaring plot problems. I mean am I silly to think they might address the 10 million people killed when a city is leveled?

If there's one characteristic that sets the X-Men franchise apart from the MCU, its how rarely the films remain true to the comics, both in their storylines and characters.

The film, although entertaining, did not live up to his previous efforts. The unbalance within the film was the most glaring issue.