The latest installment in the X-Men franchise is okay in my opinion. I thought about overnight and I liked it better than how I felt about it right after I came out of the theater.
Apocalypse is about the first ever mutant who rises back to 'cleanse' the earth and save his 'children'. He is an all-powerful being who many consider God. He gathers his four helpers called the horsemen in helping him with his objective. We see the original X-Men being formed for the very first time with Jean, Cyclops, Beast etc and their explosive fight towards the end with Apocalypse.
The positives and negatives are so mixed with each other for me that I will try to combine both together. The chemistry between Charles and Magneto is always the one that has never let me down, be it Patrick Stewart/Ian McKellen or James McAvoy/Michael Fassbender. Both James and Michael have done a great job in carrying on the legacy. Magneto, by himself, does have a weak moment where he turns up to the sky with a question that felt very out of place, and this was right after an amazing moment. It has been mentioned quite a lot lately, but cannot come to terms with Mystique being the primary character and her being the leader of X-Men. I did not mind Jennifer Lawrence but somehow she doesn't look as authoritative and menacing as Rebecca Romjin in the blue Mystique look. I have always liked the X-Men theme music and it got me right into the movie from the start. The creation of Apocalypse and build up to his plans was great during the first half and I was hooked onto it but later on, the pacing felt very uneven and perhaps the movie went a bit too long as well. I was starting to feel tired about half way through the movie (the same feeling I had while watching BvS the very first time). Talking about Apocalypse, his power usage seemed very uneven to me and sometimes I could not understand why he needed any help with him being so powerful.
There are some excellent action shots involving the women, Psylocke and Jean Grey and that was good to watch. Jean is an extremely powerful mutant and so her struggle to control her power being limited to one bad dream did not feel right. I understand its hard to do all that in one movie space. While I am on this topic, the young actors were enjoyable especially Sophie Turner (Jean), Tye Sheridan (Cyclops) and Kodi-Smit McPhee (Nightcrawler) although there was not enough of them for me to know if they could hold together an X-Men movie on their own.
The humor is sometimes forced but never bothersome in my opinion and Quicksilver (Evan Peters) steals the show anytime he is one screen.
And finally, the studio should not have shown Wolverine in the trailers. I still liked his introduction but the trailers did ruin the experience a bit.
This is not Simon Kinberg's best X-Men movie but is still much better than the worst X-Men movie I have seen. I would probably rate this 4th on my list behind First Class, Days of Future Past, and X-2. Overall, I liked the movie and it is very much worth watching in theaters.