Of 'X-Men Apocalypse's Many, Many Failures, This Is Its Biggest

In X-Men: Apocalypse, a brief scene shows Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), Jubilee (Lana Condor), and Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee) leaving a screening of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and arguing the merits of the entire Star Wars trilogy. Jean ends the conversation with a single line: "At least we can all agree, the third one is always the worst." Though director Bryan Singer was probably intending a dig at X-Men: The Last Stand, he unintentionally shot himself in the foot as X-Men: Apocalypse is on the lower end of the X-Men films. Though not as excruciating as X-Men Origins: Wolverine or Dark Phoenix, it falls far short of the standards set by X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: First Class...and a great deal of that is due to the titular villain.