This film, custom built to combine the two separate X-Men film franchises, almost makes up for the mess that Fox had made of them up to that point. The emotional moments land, the story manages to not be needlessly complex in spite of having a convoluted time-travel based premise, and the whole thing genuinely fits in both continuities. All the while handily giving a sort-of-functioning excuse for most of the plot holes (though they of course _immediately_ started the next sequel by making more of them). ( )