Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) by Matt Singer for ScreenCrush — 08 May 2016

13 years later, the X-Men are bigger, and the effects used to bring their powers to life are even more convincing. But what’s missing at this point is that sense of awe and wonder from those early days.

For all the fighting and blasting and bamfing, we’ve seen it all before — sometimes literally.