X-Men Apocalypse: 13 Reasons It's A Huge Disappointment

13. The Plot Is Extremely Generic

While in a way it's refreshing that X-Men: Apocalypse isn't another needlessly convoluted comic book movie, the more simple, streamlined plot unfortunately ends up feeling incredibly generic and cliched.

For the most part this pertains to Apocalypse's plan: he's a big bad mutant who is woken up after being dormant for centuries, then gets some information about Earth by connecting to a TV and believes that humanity must be eliminated so he can build a better Earth. And of course, he wants to transfer himself into Charles Xavier's body to gain his telepathic powers.

It's all overly familiar and highly underwhelming, but that's not the lot: consider Magneto's introduction in the movie, where he's now living in Poland with a wife and daughter. Is there ever any doubt that his tranquil existence will be upended, and his family will die?

Writer Simon Kinberg has sadly come up with some of the most predictable and formulaic superhero plotting of recent times, but at least the internal logic still makes a lot more sense than Batman v Superman.