★★★
There has been a lot of hype, Easter eggs hidden in other Marvel films, movie-teaser trailers...otherwise a TON of money poured into this summer's installment of the widely successful X-Man series. I can tell you this much...Bryan Singer and company do NOT disappoint. "X-Men: Days of Future Past" is over the top, introduces a few newer characters, and even allows for the return of fan favorites long gone. In short...IT IS AMAZING!!
Much as the trailers show, the movie begins 50 years into the future, with mutants being hunted to extinction by Trask Industries Sentinel destroyers. They are able to hone in on mutant blood (and track mutant sympathizers) to capture and destroy. It is a grizzly sequence of film right at the start and paints the future bleak for mutant and human alike. No part of the globe is unscathed by the rampant disregard for life that these AI creatures possess.
In a catch-22 moment within this beginning series of the film, Wolverine volunteers to do the impossible and is transported back through time to juxtapose with his former "1973 self' to stop a crucial event in the early inception of the Trask Industries military Sentinel contract. He must bring together Magneto and Professor X, as well as Raven/Mystique, Beast (Nicholass Hoult), and Quicksilver (Peter Evans) for this plan to have a chance. AND it must be accomplished in 5 days time. Will this crazy plot even work? Seemingly impossible, right...you will just have to wait and see how the movie ends.
Simon Kinberg (X2 and X-Men Last Stand) was brought back to finalize the screenplay (in a story collaboration with Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn who worked on X-Men: First Class). This writing team allowed the past decade of X-men films to have some crucial continuity and attempted to fix errors from the past. The story affords the next film (X-Men Apocalypse) to utilize whichever mutants it so desires to fight (you'll have to wait for the Easter Egg at the end of the credits to see the next villain).
While we have all come to expect Hugh Jackman to embody Wolverine 100%, I feel that he gets better with every film as he comes to understand the character--be Wolverine, not just look like Wolverine. Nevertheless, as great has Hugh is, Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique) steals the movie with every scene. Her ability to make the entire audience empathize with the twisted past of Mystique is truly amazing. She is confusing, passionate and lovely all at the same time. I hope that she is around for many films to come..albeit both of their required paychecks may stretch the budget in the future.
While I am a fan of the X-Men. and a fan of a few of the comic series, I cannot say that I have been 100% happy with all of the liberties taken in the films to date. I do feel that this film has attempted to rectify many problems of the original 3 (as well as the horrible Wolverine: Origins), by allowing for a complete reboot of the story-line by the end of the credits. Therein lies the best part of the movie--the final sequence allows for hope for the future of the X-Men franchise. It is a MUST see for this summer!! Go and enjoy with the entire family!
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