My review of X-Men Days of Future Past

My review of X-Men Days of Future Past

 

Intro: Mr. Ratner you should be thanking Mr. Singer for cleaning up your mess because this movie is the only thing that's keeping the fans from giving you the beating you deserve. I mean asking for.

X-Men Days of Future Past: This movie takes place in the year 2023 a group of machines called Sentinel are hunting and killing both humans and mutants. In order to stop them and prevent this ordeal from happening again, the X-Men decided to send Wolverine back to the year 1973 to stop the Sentinel from being created. 

I have mixed feelings about this movie, I did enjoy it however something about it feels off. I appreciate that this movie tried to connect with First Class and the other X-Men films. You can see how characters influence each other in this film. I’m not going to compare this movie to The Terminator because everyone else has already done that. Also, the comic book that this movie is based on came out before the Terminator. I like the Sentinels in this movie because they're more dangerous than they were in the comics. This movie is as entertaining as First Class. I'm glad the director didn’t go back and forth from the future to the past.  

QuickSilver is cool, funny, and clever. There is a scene in the movie we he steals the show. What bugs me about him is that he's barely in the movie. 

Bolivar Trask is the man who created the Sentinel. It's hard to see him as the villain I mean he's only doing this to protect humans from mutants that could be dangerous, I can't fault the man for having forethought. 

Mystique gets to stand on her own two feet in this movie, she's almost like her comic book counterpart. You kind of feel sorry for her because she feels like she's being controlled by everyone. 

Prof. Xavier is a far cry from what he was in first class because of the events that happened in 1973. 

Logan/Wolverine has to guide Prof. Xavier out of his broken state of mind. 

Kitty Pryde has a bigger role than she did in the last stand.     

One of the problems I have with this movie is the plot holes, that's funny because this movie was suppose to fix those issues. Here’s an example of one of the plot holes, if the Sentinel have been around since the 1970’s why haven’t we seen them in the earlier films or why haven't the Sentinel been referenced beforehand? Also, this movie removes characters without telling us what happened to them? You might be annoyed with how this movie introduces new characters, I say that because we don't know who they are and how long they've been part of the X-Men? 

I wish the brotherhood was in this movie to add more conflict. This movie feels more like a sequel to First Class than X-Men The Last Stand, I wish there were more scenes of the future. Well to be fair making a movie like this is tricky. The way this movie ended bothers me because this ending would have been a fine ending to this franchise if this was the last movie in this franchise. A minor complaint I have with the film is the score, the movie uses the same score from X2. 

I wish I can say that this is the best X-Men movie however my gripes and exceptions for this movie keep me from saying that. This film would have been better if it was split into two films. I would recommend this movie if you like time travel films.

Rating = Average