10 Reasons Why X-Men: Apocalypse Is The Worst In The First Class Trilogy

2) Bland Set Pieces

Bar the numbingly lengthy, city-wrecking final set piece, Apocalypse mostly doesn’t botch its action. That doesn’t mean the set pieces are particularly interesting, though. Much of the action feels same-y and stale, like Singer – after four X-Men films – has begun to run out inventive ways to make his action sequences pop.

Even Quicksilver’s jaunt through the X-Mansion, the highlight of the film, is an inferior version of Days of Future Past‘s own Quicksilver scene, while Wolverine’s berserker attack, another high-point, echoes another similar scene in 2003’s X2. It’s a sorry state of affairs when the best bits feel borrowed from superior movies, and the closest recent comparison for the final, climactic battle is Man of Steel‘s own ill-advised finale.