Some believe that the first mutant was born thousands of years ago. He was some kind of god, and he's going to rise again.
Long long time ago, there was the very first mutant, En Sabah Nur aka Apocalypse (Poe is that you?), who is betrayed by his followers and buried alive. But not before one of his horsemen die protecting him. So you of course DO NOT want to wake this guy up right? But then what's the use of superheroes if they do not have a super villain to fight. And this super villain is awesome!! The friendly mutants have to fight the not so friendly mutants. We know that Apocalypse has been alive for a very long time and every time he rises he recruits 4 horsemen (Holy cow!) So how does he manage to remain alive you say? Well he kind of transports himself to another mutant's body and then take on their powers as well (Boo Yah!) This time he recruits Storm (No storm Noo...I thought you were one of the good guys...sniff), Magneto (who has a love hate relationship with Prof X), Psylocke and Angel (mutant birdie).
Enough about the villains, lets come to our heroes. I still cant come to terms with Prof X (James McAvoy...sigh) having so much hair, but sadly its gone in the end (Ouch). I thought that he had same problems like us, a receding hairline. But nooo, he has mutant problems, major mutant problems.
The film takes place in 1983, where we are introduced to Scott Summers, and way to take care of a high school bully, good on you Scott. His brother Alex brings him to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, where in a very dramatic (boy meets girl) sequence Scott meets Jean (love at first sight?...nah Scott has his eyes bandaged). By the way 1983 was the year that Return of the Jedi was released. When Scott, Jean, Jubilee and Nightcrawler bunk school and visit a mall (lets go to the mall...Today...arghhhh HIMYM hangover!), they watch star wars and Jean says the third movie is always the worst (Teee hee hee)
Comic relief comes in the form of Nightcrawler and Quicksilver (My Maaannnnn!!). Quicksilver's sequences of saving everyone (and some goldfish!) from a crumbling X mansion and kicking Apocalypses' ass are EPIC! And Prof X stalking Moira MacTaggert! (a CIA agent he met and fell in love with in the X-men: First Class). So Facebook did not exist then, yet he stalks her via Cerebro. Also Apocalypse might be an old dude but he sure knows how to hack Cerebro. Raven, Jean and Storm are the bad-ass girls of this movie, who have their own butt kicking moments(Ohh Yeahhh). And Jean turning into the Phoenix (Girl power!) And a brief (but Oh-my-freakin-awesome) cameo by the man himself Wolverine (Hugh Jackman...droool). Scott says "Hope its the last we see of this guy"(Yeah right Scott...Dream on)
You have to watch the movie if you are a X-Men fan. Because the story line is clean and the background stories are perfectly coordinated. You should watch it for Magneto and Quicksilver(who is much better than Peter Maximoff in the Avengers). You can even watch it if you have never seen any of the X-Men movies, but if you have you will understand the subtle hints throughout. Also watch it for Prof X who gets his legs back for a small time. Why is quicksilver so keen on finding Magneto? Why did a good working class guy (who actually saved a guy from being killed) turn into Magneto? Does the guy on the roof finally kiss the girl (Ewwwww)? Do the X-Men save the world once again? Watch it and find out.
Also please wait for the end of credits scene, it tells us who might be the villain in the next Wolverine movie (MUHAHAHA).
Raven: Forget everything you think you know, you're not students anymore! You're X-Men!
