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Some bad points about the film:
Firstly, as I mentioned, there’s very little screen time for Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen and, even more annoyingly, the gorgeous Ellen Page, since they’re all stuck in the “present day” (which I put in quotes as they’re still about 10 years ahead of our time), as the majority of the film is set in the past.
The battles aren’t brilliant. We know things are going to kick-off big-time between the mutants and Trask’s Sentinel crew, but they’re not unveiled until late into the third act and the level of overall destruction is limited to either bizarre other worlds in the future where we have no point of reference, or a 1973 American Football stadium which the trailer shows is lifted up by Erik and dumped somewhere else.
The battles in the “present day” are just made confusing by the fact that one of the X-Men is equipped with something akin to a Portal gun, so you can effectively travel to another part of your current landscape, but where that works in the Portal game – as you set the first portal and then the second one, here they appear simultaneously so it comes off as a poorly-executed idea.
There’s also precious little screen time for Halle Berry as Storm, but since I don’t think she could act her way out of a paper bag, this isn’t a problem to me.
There’s also a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearance by Anna Paquin as Rogue, even though she’s quite high up in the overall cast list, which is a bizarre situation. However, this post from ComicBook.com shows that her scenes ended up on the cutting room floor. Bad luck, Rogue. Better luck when the Blu-ray comes out.
Finally, as I’ve said many a time, I’m one of those people who likes to stay for the end credits. Generally, I’m the only person there at this time. This time, however, 8 people stayed, including me. And we got, as I suspected, a short clip at the very end. Exactly what it leads to is unclear at this point, but no doubt we will have to wait until 2016 to find out because X-Men: Apocalypse is scheduled for a UK release on May 19th 2016.
And we finally find out the truth reason the JFK “magic bullet” theory…
Cert: 
Running time: 131 minutes
Year: 2014
Released: May 22nd 2014
Format: 2.35:1 (ARRIRAW (2.8K))
Rating: 7/10
Director: Bryan Singer
Producers: Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Lauren Shuler Donner and Bryan Singer
Screenplay: Simon Kinberg (based on a story by Jane Goldman, Simon Kinberg and Matthew Vaughn)
Music: John Ottman
Cast:
Logan / Wolverine: Hugh Jackman
Charles Xavier: James McAvoy
Erik Lehnsherr: Michael Fassbender
Raven / Mystique: Jennifer Lawrence
Storm: Halle Berry
Hank / Beast: Nicholas Hoult
Rogue: Anna Paquin
Kitty Pryde: Ellen Page
Dr. Bolivar Trask: Peter Dinklage
Bobby / Iceman: Shawn Ashmore
Bishop: Omar Sy
Peter / Quicksilver: Evan Peters
Maj. Bill Stryker: Josh Helman
Colossus: Daniel Cudmore
Blink: Bingbing Fan
Sunspot: Adan Canto
Warpath: Booboo Stewart
Professor X: Patrick Stewart
Magneto: Ian McKellen
Havok: Lucas Till
Toad: Evan Jonigkeit
President Nixon: Mark Camacho
Beast (older): Kelsey Grammer (uncredited)
Jean Grey: Famke Janssen (uncredited)
Scott Summers: James Marsden (uncredited)
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