X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Absolutely Fantastic

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

As of this review, it has been 4 years since this movie came out and re-watching this movie over and over again never takes anything out of it. It is purely SPECTACULAR and it's complexity never insults the audience's intelligence. It is not as complicated and confusing as a movie like inception but it makes you think as human beings as well as movie goers. It is this complexity that makes me give this movie a 10 and if possible an 11 as well because as super hero movies keep coming out and eating up the box office, there is an increase in technical quality with a decrease in plot quality that I do not appreciate... almost as if super hero movies are made only for children.To start with, the cast and crew. The cast is truely on point with their script with top actors like Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Micheal Fassbender, etc. They do their bests to not take the spotlight of each other and they excel in it wonderfully. I know some people, as of 2018, do feel Jennifer Lawrence is overrated but this is indeed her best movie since Silver Lining Playbook, which was also another great movie. Also to highlight, a big deal of this movie revolves around her character Mystique and this actually gives wolverine a plot driver role rather than making him the plot and one could say that wolverine role in this movie is not too important or a much better word, consequential in this movie. This is also the return of Bryan Singer as a director in the X-Men which extends his streak in great X-Men movies, almost like anything he touches turns to gold (with the exception of X-Men apocalypse of course) and this is primarily because of his vast knowledge of the X-Men universe as I am very sure he did read a lot of X-Men comic books as a young child. He was the first person to give us a good superhero team movie in the form of X-Men in 2000 and is of no doubt one of the main reason for the super hero movie hysteria that is presently going on today, making it seem cool in social circles. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing to be honest.Another thing to talk about about is the technical aspects of it. Nothing was spared on this movie as it was one of the highly budgeted movies at the time with a budget of 200 million dollars (And yes U.S dollars not Zimbabwean dollars). It's graphics were on point, it's 70s atmosphere was cool as it is set in 1973 and it even brushes on a little on the Vietnam war, on which I am a history buff on. Nuff said, let's move on to the plot.The plot on this movie is very much inspired by the sentinel arc in the X-Men comics and cartoons. Anybody that has some significant knowledge knows that it is the best story arc in the X-Men universe no matter the adaptation, this movie only solidifies that claim. This movie is both a direct sequel of The Wolverine and X-Men first class, with it having better connections in terms of plot with X-Men first class thus you may need to watch first class to understand what's going on in the past. It also resets the X-Men universe to give future X-Men movies more creative space without sacrificing the continuity of the franchise. It starts with Wolverine being brought to the future by Professor X and Magneto immediately after the events of The Wolverine. The future is gloom and all hope is almost lost and Professor X and Magneto are working together to fight against the sentinels but it is too late with mutants being hunted down and killed by sentinels. You see mutants die left and right in this movie which only makes it darker, which I absolutely loved about the movie. Wolverine is then sent back to 1973 as a hail mary by Professor X with Kitty Pryde's powers, which is basically putting the conscience of one's future self in his or her past's body (I had no idea she had those powers to be honest). His mission to to stop a certain event that happens in 1973 that'll kick start the creation of the sentinels by Trask Industries with 100% approval from the American government as they now see all mutants hostile as Mystique tries to kill Boliver Trask in 1973. This movie is simply amazing and I'll recommend to anybody with a decent I.Q, especially comic book fans to watch this movie. What really gives this movie a legendary status in my opinion is the ending. An ending that simplifies and concludes a very complicated plot and leaves you as a movie watcher satisfied, emotional and fulfilled. An ending that, I have to admit, made me shed a tear. I would have been happy if this was the end of the X-Men universe which started in 2000, but Hollywood had to ruin it with a bad sequel movie in X-Men apocalypse. Although it's still early too judge the franchise with the Dark Phoenix yet to come out so I'll give the X-Men franchise the benefit of the doubt but still nothing takes anything away from this movie. Simply amazing and made me choose the X-Men franchise over the now famous overrated bandwagoned MCU. It is a movie I will put alongside the likes of the dark knight trilogy, 2002's Spider-man, GOTG 1, and Captain America Winter Soldier. Wonderful movie, 11/10.

It's clearly the best of all the X-Men films and the whole franchise including the Hugh Jackman Wolverine Stand-Alone movies and Ryan Reynolds appearances as Deadpool. This is a nearly perfect crossover of the old X-Men trilogy, the new bunch of mutants and at the same time this film deletes every mistake made by X-Men: The Last Stand. It's just sad to see that it's Wolverine who is going back in time and not Kitty Pryde. It would've been a perfect opportunity to give her a bigger role here. But it still works. Hugh Jackman has great chemistry with Michael Fassbenders Magneto and James McAvoys Charles Xavier. Also big parts for Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique (here way better than in First Class), Nicholas Hoult as Beast and a small but scene stealing moment for this incarnation of Quicksilver played by Evan Peters (and by Aaron Johnson in The Avengers: Age of Ultron). It's a fun ride. It's a time travel movie well made. It's handling a lot of characters very well. It's entertaining from start to finish.

This movie is VERY great. Well done, maybe one of the best Xmen movies. Very deep too. Wish Hollywood would do more like this movie.

'X-men Days Of Future Past (2014)' serves as an apt goodbye to the original cast and a fitting initiation of the new one. This time-travel feature includes some great characters and interesting ideas but an occasional lack of action that does make for a drier watch the second time around, once you know where things are heading. Still, the lulls in excitement never last too long and there isn't usually a lack of character to drive the admittedly somewhat complex plot. The set-pieces that do occur are lavish and well designed, featuring interesting villains and impressively rendered superpowers clashing over two time periods. It's engaging stuff, compelling and interesting throughout. Most importantly, it's entertaining. 8/10