With the long wait finally over, The New Mutants, the last of Fox’s X-Men films, is hit the big screen after years of delays, but does the movie live up to what has been promised for so long?

Josh Boone, director of such movies as The Fault in Our Stars, recreates the world of the X-Men comics by bringing the characters and their impressive powers from page to screen.

The film has a 32 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 5.6/10 on IMDb, and from what I’ve seen, opinions on the film have been drastically different, with a few common thoughts that seem to be shared.

My main likes from the film come from the casting. As a fan familiar with the characters in their comics, I never once felt like the characters were being wrongly depicted.

The characters were adapted greatly, but even greater was the on screen depiction of their mutant abilities. Every time we got to see the powers of our five main characters, I was impressed with the special effects and accuracy of their powers. My favorite, in particular, was Robert da Costa, Sunspot. His character was depicted in X-Men: Days of Future Past, but was heavily inaccurate when it came to the depiction of his abilities. In this film however, they absolutely nailed it.

While I loved the characters and their abilities, what really hurts this film is the story. The film varies wildly in what tone is set for each scene, as it fits into many different categories, such as teen, drama, horror, suspense, and action. Also, while the three female leads, Dani Moonstar, Magik, and Wolfsbane are given plenty of character development, the male leads, Sunspot and Cannonball, aren’t given much to do in the film.

The film’s final battle ends anticlimactically, which I don’t feel was executed in a satisfying way, and it is clear the film was left open for sequels, as the original intention was to make a trilogy.

Throughout Fox’s X-Men franchise, they have certainly made some bad films, but this isn’t one of them. I would rank this one somewhere in the middle of them all. It is definitely worth watching at least once, even if you aren’t a hardcore Marvel fan.