Year: 2014
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman
Review: X-Men: Days Of Future Past serves as a sequel to both X-Men: First Class (which is excellent) and X-Men: The Last Stand (which is pretty bad). Now, I used to be a pretty big X-Men fan a few years ago, but after the disappointments of X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, I kind of just stopped caring about the franchise, even though the subsequent two movies were actually very good (the aforementioned X-Men: First Class and then The Wolverine). That being said, I was still looking forward to Days Of Future Past, what with it being the return of the old X-Men crew, and I was also moderately familiar with the Days Of Future Past comic. I was just expecting it to be good though, but it turns out not only is Days Of Future Past the best X-Men movie yet, its also one of the best comic-book movies ever made.In Days Of Future Past, the X-Men of the future are facing extinction due to the sentinels which threaten to wipe them all out. They send Wolverine back in time to 1973 where he must recruit Professor X, Magneto and Mystique in order to change the course of history so that the X-Men may survive.First things first, this is a time travel movie, and time travel movies normally either go very well or very badly. Days Of Future Past marks an occasion where it goes very well, as the time travel logic in this movie is very well thought out and makes perfect sense, I cant pick any holes in it. This movie even manages to validate X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which is something that I thought could never be done. It even feels weird just saying that, because righting the wrongs that those movies made is a huge, monumental task, yet this movie pulls it off perfectly.For a movie thats crowded with so many characters, its surprising that all of the characters included feel meaningful and arent shoehorned in. We have Hugh Jackman returning as Wolverine, and theres not much to say about him that hasnt already been said. He is Wolverine, the role is made for him and he absolutely owns it. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender are incredible as Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr respectively, their characters have an amazing relationship and the two of them are just phenomenal at pulling it off. We also have the future X-Men cast with the like of Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan and Ellen Page, and while they have a lot less screen time theyre still great. I was surprised at how prominent a role Jennifer Lawrence had as Mystique, over the past few months Ive had a growing dislike towards Jennifer Lawrence but I cant deny that she is great in this role. Then we have all of the new characters, like Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage), Bishop (Omar Sy) and Blink (Bingbing Fan), all of whom are great. But there is one new character who is greater than all, and that character is Quicksilver.Quicksilver in this movie is perfect. In fact, its worth seeing this movie just for him. He doesnt have a huge amount of screen time and it comes fairly early on in the movie, but he is the best part of this film by far. There is one particular sequence with him in a kitchen, and it is jaw-droppingly beautiful. The visuals in the scene are gorgeous, the music is perfect, and its both hilarious and stunning. The way that Quicksilvers super speed effect has been done is amazing. Some people thought the costume looked goofy, but I think it works perfectly well considering the time period and the personality of the character. Ive been a big fan of Evan Peters for a while, and he is great in the role, he is very entertaining and has a great screen presence. I never thought Id be saying this, but I doubt Marvel will be able to produce a better Quicksilver in Avengers: Age Of Ultron than the one thats on display here.But you know what I think all this great quality comes down to? Bryan Singer. Im pretty sure Bryan Singer is just the perfect X-Men director. Even though up until now I thought X-Men: First Class was the best of the X-Men franchise, i…
