Saturday, 2 May 2015

Days of past not enough future

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

Directed by Bryan Singer this film stars Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart. In the future Mutants are kept in camps and hunted by killer robots, the only option left is to send someone back in time to prevent the future ever happening.

Having to put the X-Men franchise back together after the disaster of X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) was a major effort but this film provides an elegant reboot using one of the iconic story lines from the comics. Unfortunately the plot of the film focuses too much on the 1973 portion of the story which lacks the huge scale and darkness of the future portions which I would love to have seen more of as in the comics. The plot does a decent job on a character level, expanding the characters from the First Class (2011) but is not as good as some of the other films in the franchise. There is plenty of enjoy and the action sequences are decent but I am not sure this is the best version of Days of Future Past we could have had.


4/5

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