I don't know why this entry gets the most dislike of the "young" team films. I waited an awful long time to finally watch it myself, and yes there's things about it that could be better, but there's a lot about it I liked.

I liked this portrayal of the Phoenix better than the original trilogy take on it. Though the aliens were sort of a weak antagonist to insert. I greatly appreciate - above all else - this film diving deeper into the controversy of Professor Xavier.

My favorite thing about the X-Men when I was growing up, is just how much of it fell into shades of gray. And even as an adult. Xavier has good intentions but he's a man who can force his will on anyone. Eric is a man who's methods are questionable but he tends to want similar end goals. I've seen in comics Cyclops go from the biggest Boy Scout of all time to becoming someone on par with Magneto as a villain while Wolverine became the ideal "good guy." X-Men has always felt more fluid than most comics in regards to right and wrong, good and bad, and the different perspectives surrounding those concepts. And this film tackling the way Xavier's good intentions can lead to less than desirable methods, and whether or not a man like him should be able to make the calls he makes, was a nice change of pace as opposed to the simplistic "this side good, that side bad."

At the end of the day, with all X-Men films considered as a whole, they all could have been done so much better. Especially if anyone could have foreseen the scale comic films would have reached when X-Men first released. I won't judge any of them overly harshly as they've truly tried to make their entirety of their film franchise work together with time travel and alternate timelines, and tried to explore those gray areas where good and evil aren't so cut and dry.

The instrumental soundtrack to this is pretty killer too.

The storyline is pretty decent. But Sophie Turner's poor Acting skills just kills the whole movie. Rest of the characters are alright with the kind of script they have got. McAvoy and Fassbender are more of a saving grace to this film.

Maybe it had something to do with the fact Phoenix came out so soon after Endgame but all the negative feedback now more than a year later seems just a tad OTT. It worked on me. It actually has taken me until now to actually decide to finally give it a couple of hours of my time and I can honestly say 'wassup with all the fuss folks'! Sure it may not be the best Marvel movie by quite a margin, not necessarily even the best X movie but did it warrant the criticism it recieved, hell no. I found it an easy couple of hours and entertaining watch. Did it have faults, sure. Do plenty of other Marvel movies also have faults, hell yes. Did they receive the same level of criticism, hell no. Bit of perspective required methinks peeps. Just my penny's worth.