Xmen: Days of Future Past

Overall Rating: 10/10
One Word to Describe it: Spectacular

Xmen: Days of Future Past is the explosive return to the Xmen series for director Bryan Singer who left after making X2, plunging the Xmen series into the abyss of shit that was Xmen: The Last Stand. The road to recovery had begun with the very good Xmen: First Class, but now it is time for Singer to retake the reigns. And what a comeback . Days of Future Past begins in a dark, bleak future where Sentinels monitor the Earth and have eliminated any threat that mutants posed to humans, destroying most of humanity in the process, with only a handful of mutants surviving including Magneto, Professor X and Wolverine. They decide their only remaining course of action is to send back Wolverine into 1973 and prevent the cause of the Sentinel Project- Mystique killing Bolivar Trask, the creator of the Sentinels. This reintroduces us to James McAvoy as the younger Professor X, who does a brilliant job of humanising the emotionally hurt professor. With a little persuasion from Wolverine, he agrees to aid him along with Beast. However this involves breaking out the Xmen's ever present nemesis-Magneto, who is also played very well by Michael Fassebender-from the Pentagon. This requires a little help from a certain silver haired mutant and the scene after they escape the prison, filmed from the perspective of the super quick mutant, is one of the greatest cinematic sequences you're likely to see this year. The film reaches its conclusion when-surprise-Magneto betrays Xavier as he is willing to do anything for his cause, and climaxes in an epic act of a stadium being relocated to the White House by Magneto and a battle of wits and minds ensues. Xmen: Days of Future Past is without a doubt the best Xmen film ever made and, if you stay to watch the post credits scene, there is all the more reason to get hyped up over the next instalment.


By Paolo