10 Worst Fox Marvel Movies

8. X-Men: Apocalypse

After the one-two punch to the gut of the franchise with X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the series worked to regain its footing starting with the soft reboot that was X-Men: First Class, the apology letter that was The Wolverine, and then the beloved X-Men: Days of Future Past, which really restored a lot of faith in the franchise.

That film offered up the films a clean slate from which to move forward even as it set a high bar - like X2 did - for what came next: X-Men: Apocalypse. Like The Last Stand, the most frustrating thing about Apocalypse is the fact it does get a lot right, like the performances of James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender or that we get to see a handful of the mutants use their powers on a scale the franchise hadn't shown before.

But all of the good is bogged down by a bloated story, a high stakes finale rendered hollow due to its lack of a real emotional core, and the wasting of Oscar Isaac as the titular villain. It's entertaining in fits and bursts, but could've been so much more had more thought been put into making it something truly special, especially when all the pieces were there to build something worthy of following up Days of Future Past.