Well, it's been sold as the final instalment in the twenty-year old X-Men franchise, but what a shame to go out with such a whimper, with only a tenuous connection to the rest - naturally, including none of the expensive big guns - and wholly confined to one location, where five mutant teenagers are kept in an institution for their own protection, each having suffered some trauma as their powers manifested themselves in the outside world. The modishly diverse quintet (two boys, three girls, their ethnicities being Brazilian, Irish, hillbilly, Russian and vaguely native American) snipe at each other like high school kids, act equally truculently towards their supposed doctor and guardian, and then have to fight a supernatural mess of their own making, which turns out to be just as uninteresting as the build-up to it was. It's not that it's incompetently made, just utterly pointless.
4/10
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