Year: 2014
Genre: Superhero / Comicbook
Before the trailers were on for this I decided to look up exactly how many X-Men films there have been, and when the first one came out. Lets face it, it feels like they have been around for forever and day. IMDB says the first one came out in 2000, and I reckon there has been five or six in total (if you count the couple of Wolverine spin offs). So yeah, if this feels like the umpteenth X-Men film, that's because it is.
Essentially a handing over the baton vehicle for the franchise, the film's plot borrows heavily from the first Terminator and involves Wolverine travelling back in time to prevent the manufacture of sentinels; huge twelve foot tall robots that intend to wipe out mutants and humans with mutant DNA to create a utopian society. The time travelling element allows the actors from the earlier films to appear in the same film as those from 'First Class', and you pretty much end up with every single person who has ever played a mutant all together in one film. This though, is not such a bad thing when you consider McKellen and Stewart look like a pair of pensioners ready for a retirement home.
'Days of Future Past' is easily the best of the series. As always, Hugh Jackman is goes off the alpha male scale as Wolverine, and is sufficient enough eye candy for any ladies in the audience that have been dragged along by their sci-fi fan other halves. The rest of the cast excel in their roles and provide sufficient enough reason to pursue yet another sequel. In particular, I felt Michael Fassbender single handedly trounced Ian McKellen's Magneto and then some.
There are some great set pieces, and without going into too much detail there is one particular scene with Quicksilver that is true cgi mastery. The film chugs along at a decent pace and is pleasingly coherent given that it's a time travel movie. It isn't drawn out, and the 1970's backdrop ensures at no point does it become too far fetched and rely too heavily on special effects to convey it's message.
Make no mistake, 'Days of Future Past' is all about the characters, and a great set of actors make for a great movie. Easily the best of the series (and slightly surpassing First Class, which was great in it's own right), you could do a lot worse than catch this on a rain sodden English Summer afternoon.
4.5 Stars (would have been five if Hugh Jackman hadn't used so much just for men)
'Days of Future Past' is easily the best of the series. As always, Hugh Jackman is goes off the alpha male scale as Wolverine, and is sufficient enough eye candy for any ladies in the audience that have been dragged along by their sci-fi fan other halves. The rest of the cast excel in their roles and provide sufficient enough reason to pursue yet another sequel. In particular, I felt Michael Fassbender single handedly trounced Ian McKellen's Magneto and then some.
There are some great set pieces, and without going into too much detail there is one particular scene with Quicksilver that is true cgi mastery. The film chugs along at a decent pace and is pleasingly coherent given that it's a time travel movie. It isn't drawn out, and the 1970's backdrop ensures at no point does it become too far fetched and rely too heavily on special effects to convey it's message.
Make no mistake, 'Days of Future Past' is all about the characters, and a great set of actors make for a great movie. Easily the best of the series (and slightly surpassing First Class, which was great in it's own right), you could do a lot worse than catch this on a rain sodden English Summer afternoon.
4.5 Stars (would have been five if Hugh Jackman hadn't used so much just for men)
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