X-Men: Days of Future past follows Wolverine as he travels back in time to save the mutant race and stop their near-extinction. Can Wolverine stop the upcoming apocalypse? Can the good guys trust Magneto? Can Fox trick us into forgetting about X-Men: The Last Stand? All these questions and more are answered in the best X-Men film of the franchise.
2014 has to be one of the best years for summer movies of all time. We were given the Captain America sequel, Edge of Tomorrow, How to Train Your Dragon 2, and the upcoming sci-fi flick Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. And compared to most of the truly extraordinary films this summer, Days of Future Past reigns superior. Bryan Singer returns to direct his franchise and he comes back in tremendous fashion. Despite his last two films (Superman Returns, Jack the Giant Slayer) being less than satisfactory, he returns at the top of his game to the films he apparently was born to direct. Everyone in this film is great and utilized to perfection. It's definitely a crowded movie, combining the main cast of the original X-Men trilogy and the main cast from First Class, yet somehow through Singer's direction and Simon Kinberg's script, everything flows perfectly. Hugh Jackman is great again as Wolverine, Halle Berry returns and has maybe 3 lines of dialogue in the whole movie which, less face it, is a pretty great move. The guys who really stood at though were James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender playing young Xavier and Magneto, respectively.
They both deliver powerhouse performances and, despite their limited screentime, steal the show. Well, most of the show. There is one character who, with even less time of screen, steals every screen he is in. And that of course is the character Quicksilver. Quicksilver is awesome. No real other way to put it. His powers are so wonderful and visually creative, and the performance by actor Evan Peters was fun and effervescent. While all the performances were great, the visuals were another tremendous part of the film. No big, loud, never-ending, Michael Bay, Man of Steel, action sequences in Days of Future Past. While there were plenty of big, beautiful action set pieces, they were all done to further the plot of the story and actually had great weight to them. The audience understood the high stakes and could stay invested. In the end, Days of Future Past takes back it's place as one of the best best franchisees in this superhero craze. And hopefully we will be seeing Wolverine snikting his claws at Hulk and Spider-Man on the big screen soon. Final Rating- B+
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