10 Underappreciated Comic Book Movies That Deserve A Second Chance

Is Apocalypse in the same league as Bryan Singer’s first two X-Men movies? No. Does it stack up well against First Class and Days Of Future Class? Probably not.

Compared to The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, though, it looks fantastic. Writer Simon Kinberg even throws in a snide reference to the X-Men’s third outing when our heroes emerge from a screening of Return Of The Jedi: “Can we at least agree that the third one is always the worst?”

Okay, so it is curious how little the characters have aged since First Class, but it’s hard to condemn a movie that decides to give Quicksilver (Evan Peters) more screen time. Overblown ending aside, Singer has a better feel for character and action than some filmmakers who’ve worked on the series, and he delivers another solid movie here.

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.