I reckon you can probably judge whether you’ll like this film or not, simply by looking at the picture below:

Are you thinking: “Cool looking comic strip villain” or “what a silly hat!”?

To me, that’s just Sir Ian McKellen looking a bit of a div. That makes it somewhat hard to take him seriously when he starts pulling the required villainous faces.

Not to worry. It is a film about mutant people after all, so you can’t really take it too seriously.

I would imagine that it helps to perhaps watch the first two X-Men films again. Oh, by the way, after the end credits have rolled – there’s another tiny scene… 6/10.