Bryan Singer: His Films Ranked From Worst To Best

Ooh, everyone's so hot under the collar about this one right now. I've no doubt this will die down in time, although it doesn't seem likely Apocalypse will ever be held up as a highlight in the X-Men series.

That said, while it's easily the worst X-movie Bryan Singer has been at the helm of, Apocalypse is by no means the worst film of the series: it still towers above The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. But considering what a winning streak the series had been on these past five years (Deadpool very much included), it is an indisputable let-down.

Apocalypse's main problem is a recurring one in superhero cinema: it tries to go even bigger than that which came before. Considering it comes after the truly epic Days of Future Past, this was always going to be an arduous task, and Apocalypse clearly isn't up to it. The sequences of mass devastation around the globe would look far more at place in a Roland Emmerich movie than they do here.

But it's not all bad news. The new additions - Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan et al - aren't nearly as bad as some have made them out to be, and there is a nice sense of the torch being passed. The established cast members, meanwhile, are their usual likeable selves; that feeling of being reunited with old friends goes some way to making up for the often glaring series continuity errors.