Xmen : Days of Future Past Review

A new squeal after many prequels but has the cast of the prequel  

Released : May 22nd 2014

Certificate : 12A

Director : Bryan Singer

Cast : James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Shawn Ashmore, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Nicholas Hoult

Plot : Set in the future (2023) the war between the mutants and humans has destroyed most of the world. As a last stand, the Xmen send Wolverine (Jackman) back in time to the 70’s to stop the war before it even happens.

A very pleasing return of Bryan Singer to his superhero masterpiece, as it has been a total of four Xmen films made since Xmen 2 in his absence, and in those four films the franchise has come to close to collapse since the first wolverine spin off. The series was renewed with James MaCavoy and Micheal Fassbender. Much to mixed reactions, some less picky viewers loving the 70’s groves and the new young characters, and as you would expect many missing the original gang. But one thing that both will sides will agree on is the size. As this is by far the biggest of all the films, for better or for worse. Featuring the old and the new cast to come together for a true superhero epic, the biggest assemble since Avengers Assemble.

Continuing the storyline from this point had its problems thou. Such as how did Magneto get his powers back. And having to allow for the new cast members of Fassbender and MaCavoy. But because of the time since X3 only the very attentive will be bothered by the plot whole or even notice it, and the large cast did make for a big scale epic, but at the cost of not devoting enough time to all the characters. As you would expect Jackman features most of the screen time as he always has. The film also chose to focus more on the young blood than the old, with MaCavoy and Fassbender featuring more then Stewart and McKellen .Depending on where you stand this will be pleasing, or annoy you that the first Xmen film with the full original cast for 8 years doesn’t devote enough time to the original team.

But MaCavoy and Fassbender don’t disappoint in there roles of Magneto and Professor X, as they didn’t in First Class. In this instalment MaCavoy even took the character, and the series, to character depth that hasn’t been visited before. A drunk (and arguable junkie) recluse is not the sort of character that you would expect to find in a film based on cartoons for kids. But the part is short lived and MaCavoy played it well, so we could quickly return to the fun Xmen legend and action. With the presence of Bryan Singer, the action and coolness were in no shortage. Best of which was in the form of Quicksilver played by Evan Peters and his role in breaking into the Pentagon, you might be forced to rethink which ever power is your favourite. And Magneto picks up even larger stuff, making the works of First Class look like child’s play. Plus the robots are pretty sweet to.

Verdict : Bryan’s back and this is everything you would want from a Xmen film with nothing held back.

Verdict : 4/5

Quote : “I don’t want your suffering, I don’t want your future”