With 47% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, XMen Apocalypse is the ninth installment in the XMen film series and is a sequel to 2014 Days of the Future Past. The film is directed by Bryan Singer, with a screenplay by Simon Kinberg from a story conceived by Singer, Kinberg, Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris.

With detailed description, here are ten reason why XMen Apocalypse is the Worst XMen movie to date:

10. Surprisingly Boring

The action scenes were between "okay" and "great," the scenes showing the mutant powers could have been more impacting and the dialog scenes were just dead sometimes.

The destruction of the X Mansion was a 'wow moment' in most comic or animated series, but not in this franchise. It's supposed to leave the audience some sense of lasting hopelessness. While it is understandable to have the Quicksilver scene - when he saved the other mutants, the importance of the X Mansion getting destroyed was downplayed here. The film failed to switch the mood from the Quicksilver scene for it would have been drastic. Also, the comicality of the Quicksilver scene is counterproductive with the scene of the X Mansion accidentally getting blasted.

In addition, the supposedly psychic war between Apocalypse and Professor X could have been more creative. Instead, it ended up with mostly physical combat inside their minds.

9. Make Up Your Mind

One moment, Magneto's a hero another moment he's a villain. One moment he'd like to destroy the world, the next moment he would like to save it. What's really going on? We understand that Magneto is not the one with a mental powers but c'mon, his character has never been too fickle-minded like this.

Another thing, there was an unsettling confusion in Magneto's daughter's character. They kept on calling her Nina while the only Magneto daughter known to the Marvel universe (or in any other Marvel universes, for that matter) is Wanda Maximoff or Scarlett Witch. Okay, so she's not supposed to be Scarlet Witch, I can buy that - but she did have witch-like powers? Oh and the kid had to die since she's not supposed to be Scarlet Witch anyway.

In an interview, producer Simon Kinberg said: "We talked about bringing Scarlet Witch into the mix for this film, and there was actually a little scene we shot that we ended up cutting from the movie that alluded to her."

So if they cut off Scarlet Witch from the movie, who was this Nina? Did they simply forget that there were still 'traces' of Scarlet Witch in the film which they failed to also cut?

8. Out-of-character Characters

So MYSTIQUE shape-shifted twice -- when she was escaping with Nightcrawler and when she pretended as Psylocke. Her first transformation on the movie would have been a "wow moment" for the audience. Instead, the film decided to "switch frames" to magically show the transformation. Also, you wouldn't expect a real Mystique - or even a bad Mystque copycat - to travel with her real form on (or the preferred real form). A bit more of shape shifting on her end would have made her an interesting character, which she is, supposedly.

STORM grew up as a thief - true, but we all know her sense of morality was never in question. So when she saw Apocalypse killed four people, she must have thought "oh you're a mutant, let's join forces" -- NOT! There must have been a ploy that Apocalypse used on Storm, and it must have been far from the Storm v2.0 bribe.

"Everybody take a break," PROFESSOR X said going to the office of MacTaggert, then everyone froze. I guess it was easier that way to show that the XMen founder could twist people's memory - by showing that he can stop time, too.

I'm sure I'm not the first one to observe this but isn't QUICKSILVER's comic nature more of Flash's?

PSYLOCKE is a psychic-telepathic mutant with real good hand-to-hand combat skills. She could hover from the floor if needed, for crying out loud. So seeing her fall to the ground is just a sigh moment.

7. Bad CGI

According to We Got This Covered, there’s a lot of CG-based spectacle in Apocalypse. It’s a disaster epic involving huge, heavily computer-generated action set-pieces.

For example, Apocalypse‘s final act, an interminably long sequence that finds Apocalypse and Magneto trying to control the Earth’s magnetic fields as the XMen attempt to stop them. Some of the worst stuff here looks almost like pre-viz footage, cities were shown being destroyed around the world while Magneto builds a giant steel city for Apocalypse. Like so much of the film, the CGI too often seems rushed or, worse, merely unfinished.

6. Too Much Unnecessary Scenes

There’s always too much going on in Apocalypse, and the worst part is that so much of it never leads anywhere.

The importance of Moira MacTaggert's character was what? -- to accidentally set free Apocalypse? To babysit the aircraft while the mutants fight the big guy? The 'waking of Apocalypse' could have been any random accident and the main plot would have not been affected.

Caliban was also unnecessary. Surely Apocalypse is powerful enough to find mutants himself?

Apocalypse sending message to everyone using Professor X, what's the point in that? The villains going back to Auschwitz? The missile arsenal getting blasted to outer space? And so on.

5. The Villain is OP and Nerfed at the Same Time

OVERPOWERED (OP), Apocalyse in the movie has the following abilities:

- he could control sand, or conjure sand out of nothing (voila!);
- he could melt blocks of stone and pulverize buildings;
- he managed to learn language, history and current events by merely touching a TV;
- he has the mutant upgrade software;
- he could create some sort of a force field; and
- he could teleport.

AT THE SAME TIME:

- he's sympathetic to bring Magneto to the place where Magneto developed his powers;
- he used the Cerebro to, as Beast explained, "control" - he sent missiles away, but he would prefer to use Professor X to talk to the world because he doesn't like technology.

Moreover, an important power of Apocalypse was taken off him - he could resize himself, not just when doing a psychic battle! The question for most viewers would be "how would the XMen beat an immortal being that could be a titan any time?" Without this power, he was really nothing more than a usual villain wanting attention.

In addition, Apocalypse had to bribe four mutants to upgrade their powers to join him as his Horsemen. I don't think he knows the term 'bribe' nor he ever needed to bribe. He could control other mutants out on a whim.

4. Timeline's All Mixed Up

On a lesser note, Havoc got into XMen before Cyclops. I haven't read all the XMen comics but this is something new.

Also, Wolverine has just came out in this XMen installment and he's supposed to be one of the leaders in XMen's fight against super bosses, such as Apocalypse. His scene, by the way, has nothing to do with the main story. Of course they needed some teaser for the next Wolverine movie.

Most significantly, the Phoenix Saga is in a completely separate timeline. Short of saying, the two super-beings -- Apocalypse and Phoenix -- never really met. It was an interesting idea to bring the two together in a movie but there's an underplay with the use of Phoenix as a sudden savior.

I understand that the XMen (and Marvel) Cinematic Universe is supposedly a different universe from the other XMen universes out there but when you're constantly having to stop to think "wait, something's wrong here," it gets kind of frustrating.

3. Plot-holes Everywhere

Within the first ten minutes of the movie, there's already this disquieting question of "there was a self-destruct switch in the pyramid? You know, you just have to break two wooden legs where a large monolith was sitting on and it will work it's way down to destroying the entire pyramid.

Then, in the blink of an eye, Apocalypse was able to kill all of Magneto's work colleagues, does this power only apply to non-mutants?

Also, while using the Cerebro, Professor X could barely move an eyelid when Apocalypse hacked into the Cerebro but before the final scene when Apocalypse was talking to everyone on the planet through Xavier, he was able to outwit Apocalypse somehow. Great.

While it was comically entertaining to watch Quicksilver save everyone from the blast in the X Mansion, I wonder why no one else used their own powers to save others, let alone themselves?

2. Tons of "What's up with that?" Scenes

First, Apocalypse had to wear a hood to go low-profile when he came out of the wrecked pyramid. I tell you what - Apocalypse is a megalomanic narcissistic super-villain who doesn't give a damn if people recognizes him or not.

Then, there was too much idling in the movie: Apocalypse was recruiting mutants and his previous recruits with him were just idling on the background; also, when Apocalypse was convincing Professor X to side with him in a dull conversation, there was the same idling. And so on.

Also, "No more stones. No more spears. No more slings. No more swords. No more weapons! No more systems! No more superpowers" ...no more mutants? This may be a biased input but the "No more [this]" line has already been personified by Scarlet Witch when she declared "No more mutants!"

Moreover, in the final scenes, after Storm got chased off by Cyclops, she was finally gaining her sense of morality. A combination of bad acting and bad plot twist made Alexandra Shipp's Storm possibly the worst Storm in the XMen franchise.

Finally, giant-sized Apocalypse in the inside-their-minds combat, opted to punch laying Professor X to the ground (so the imaginary building won't break?) instead of stomping at him -- and there was really no impact on the floor. At least two rib bones would have been broken with that kind of assault.

1. There Wasn't a Real Climax

The grandiose opening set the mood for a yet grandiose climax, which the film failed to accomplish. There was too much going on at the same time causing the story to not build up.

In one scene, Apocalypse was telling Storm that he will "cleanse" (then sugarcoated to "save") the world. Yet in another scene, Jean Grey was warning the audience that the pyramid would serve as an instrument to control every mind in the world (oh no!). What was Apocalypse's real plan?

In addition, the viewers (or maybe it was just me) was expecting the Four Horsemen to showcase their upgraded powers - they're supposed to be formidable forces almost impossible to beat. The film focused on Magneto - and somehow achieved the message that he's become OP, but failed to do the same for the other three. Storm could surge waves from the ocean but the movie chose for her to use a bit of lightning bolt and a bit of wind, with which she could hardly protect herself from a flailing car.

Finally, three deus ex machina scenarios were needed to defeat Apocalypse - make that four: (1) Magneto suddenly reverting sides; (2) Jean Grey surprisingly becoming the Phoenix - so much for the Phoenix Saga; (3) Storm finally coming to her senses - and (4) Apocalypse forgetting he could pulverize things. I hate deus ex machina, but four?! It would have made perfect sense if it was explained in the earlier scenes that his pulverizing power doesn't work on mutants.