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

In an effort to up the stakes and top what came before, the movie's climactic battle sequence in Cairo is...kind of a mess.

For starters, Apocalypse has Magneto control the Earth's magnetic poles and likely cause the deaths of millions worldwide, and yet in true Man of Steel style, little is said of this when he eventually turns on Apocalypse and helps save the day.

That's just one thing, though: visually the fight looks drab and dull as we've already mentioned, the fighting between the X-Men and the Horsemen is for the most part totally forgettable, and the only real saving grace is the trippy fight between Apocalypse and Xavier on the astral plane.

Inevitably and predictably, Apocalypse's Horsemen abandon him, Magneto and Storm join the X-Men and that's that. In honesty, it doesn't feel miles away from the exhausting, relatively mindless destruction porn of a Roland Emmerich or Michael Bay film: it's just hard to care much about what's going on.

While featuring Apocalypse as a villain basically requires a large-scale set-piece to close things out, something more visually dynamic and exciting would've gone a long way.