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Even though it's set in the 1980s, none of Apocalypse's characters (mutant and human) seem to have aged since the Cuban Missile Crisis. In a few more years, James McAvoy will have to transform into Patrick Stewart, which becomes less believable with each new movie.

If you can put such qualms aside then Apocalypse is an otherwise perfectly entertaining entry in the franchise, and if it's slightly underwhelming after First Class and Days Of Future Past then it's still ahead of The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Speaking of The Last Stand, writer Simon Kinberg throws in a neat dig at the film when young Jean Grey leaves a screening of Return Of The Jedi and says, "Can we at least agree that the third one is always the worst?" Hats off.

Bryan Singer returns to the director’s chair and, overblown ending aside, continues to show a better feel for character and action than any of the other filmmakers who’ve worked on the series. If the series has a problem, it’s that each subsequent movie is starting to feel more like a season of a TV show than a self-contained movie, but that’s how it goes with franchises.