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[Popchartfreak]

I find your criticisms odd. The plot was predictable, how so? What was predictable about showing the former superheroes on their last legs. It wasn't like the film had a happy ending either, the 2 main characters from the x-men films die.

I think it was great, it was a very well put together self contained plot, which showed a very different side to the superhero franchise. A darker side, a vulnerable side. It didn't end with the good guys saving the world, it ended with 2 guys who knew their time was up using what time they had left to help a few kids. It all might have been in vein, the film lets you decide that but it wasn't either going out in a blaze of glory but merely giving hope to the children.

I guessed pretty much what was going to happen throughout, maybe I've seen too many movies

The dark tone made it fairly clear it was going to be a Last Stand, but setting it in the future, of course, means that they can totally ignore it and any subsequent franchise Marvel movies are free to change that future (which then makes it pointless to me). I find it hard to believe that 2 of Marvel's key superheroes (plus every other superhero XMen and otherwise who is listed "dead") are going to stay "dead" even if it means new actors taking on the role, so I couldn't get emotionally involved in the plotline which is obviously just me! Great performances though, especially Patrick Stewart.

It's a sort of "Alternate Future" just like the ones in several of the previous movies which also didn't happen, as per the last X-Men.