This is a film that has long been in the need to be made. Ever since an appearance of sentinels first showed signs in X2 and a brief appearance in X3 we now finally get to see the future we have been waiting for. The film acts as a continuation of First Class, a swan song for the original X-men cast and a retooling of the pieces.
The film starts off in the far off future set in New york city. Mutants are in concentration camps along with humans who tried to help them and humans who may birth future mutants. Its a dark beginning and alludes to the holocaust in a very potent way.
We are then off to Moscow and see the first of the new and old x-men at work. Bing's ability to teleport is an awesome trick, Iceman does his ice slide and we finally get to see Colosuss fight. We also see cameos of warpath, sunspot and the appearance of Bishop. He teams up with kitty as we soon learn of kitty's ability to transport one's mind a couple days into the past. It's interesting how we learn of her ability to use time travel.
The main xmen eventually show up ( storm, wolverine, Xavier, magneto) and it's decided that wolverine should go back in time, cause he's the only one who can survive the 50 plus year trip. When arriving in the past, 1973, it's amazing how Bryan got into all the little details. And for all you ladies out there we do see a backshot of naked Hugh as he gets out of bed.
It's Logan's mission to get Xavier and Eric together again in order to stop mystique from killing Boliver Trask, who is played to great effect by one of the greatest actors of our generation Game of throne's Peter Dinklage. Jennifer Lawrence returns as the transforming mutant mystique, who has a big influence on how the sentinels are created. In Firat Class I thought Jennifer was terrific in the part, with this one she is in her blue form a lot more and it's hard not to think of Rebecca Romijn in the role. It all comes down to the voice, Rebecca's Mystique seemed to have this Erie echo to her voice while Jennifer just sounds like sweet Jennifer and while it in no way compromises the films quality, it it just bothered me.
The film is such a grand welcome return for both Bryan Singer and John Ottman. John continues to use the themes he created in xmen united and Bryan starts to connect the threads as certain characters start to form into the ones we know and love from the original trilogy. There's some great twists and turns and the finale act is a nail biter. In the end Days of Future Past truly rewrites history and brings back characters once thought to be dead.
X-men Days of Future Past is by far the best X-men movie to date, and the best comic book adaptation within the franchise. All errors are fixed and the chess board is set anew. What some will love most is the tie in scene at the end of the credits that ties in with the upcoming 2016 sequel, X-men: apocalypse.
One more thing, for fans of the comic Nate Grey known as X-man does appear, he appears during the prologue and epilogue of the film and I do believe a young Jean Grey makes an appearance as well.
Rating: A
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