Movie Review: X-Men Days of Future Past

One sentence that describes X men days of future past: This is what amazing Spiderman wishes it could be. Simply WOW!!! One of the top 10 movies I have seen yet in 2014. Welcome back Bryan singer, we missed you.
Now I am gonna turn off the nerdy fan-boy side of me which is jumping up and down out of happiness and analyze this film and why it is so good. But before that here are some details about the movie:
Cast and Crew:
Directed by        Bryan Singer

Produced by      Lauren Shuler Donner
                           Bryan Singer
                           Simon Kinberg
                           Hutch Parker

Screenplay by   Simon Kinberg

Story by             Jane Goldman
                           Simon Kinberg
                           Matthew Vaughn

Starring             Hugh Jackman
                          James McAvoy
                          Michael Fassbender
                          Jennifer Lawrence
                          Ellen Page
                          Shawn Ashmore
                          Nicholas Hoult
                          Peter Dinklage
                          Ian McKellen
                          Patrick Stewart

Music by          John Ottman

Cinematography              Newton Thomas Sigel

Editing by         John Ottman



Now to the review…..  This movie is awesome. Please don’t sit here reading this. Watch the movie first then come and read this review. So here is how this review is going to be split into two parts, the pros and cons of the movie and I will rate the movie in the end and I will also tell you if it is worth spending that extra bit of money to watch it in 3d. So from here on major spoilers…
          
             The movie starts in the future and it is bad. The X-Men are in really deep dough. Evolved sentinels are hunting humans and mutants alike and a group of mutants consisting of kitty, bobby, bishop, blink, sunspot and colossus are seen fighting sentinels and all of them except bishop and kitty who disappear from the room that the sentinels attack.

                   We then see storm wolverine magneto and Xavier getting down of the blackbird in china and enter an old building where they meet up with a surprisingly alive group of mutants we see earlier in the movie. Kitty can send the minds of mutants a short time into the future or past and scout for trouble. Xavier and Magneto think that it can help them prevent the war and Xavier asks Kitty to send him to the past to stop the sentinels from ever being created. But as the professor cannot withstand the pain involved, she sends wolverines to stop an event 50 years in the past where mystique murders a weapons manufacturer Trask and gets captured allowing her cells to be used to upgrade the sentinels built by Trask, so that they can adapt to all the powers of mutants. In the past Wolverine has to team up with a young Xavier, who has lost his powers because the medicine which he takes to retain his ability to walk makes him powerless, a young Beast and Magneto to stop Mystique and hopefully change the future. And that basically is the plot of the movie. I know I haven’t gone into that much detail but please trust me, and go watch this film. It is awesome and I don’t really want to reveal the full plot. And do wait for the post credits scene.

Pros:
        So the movie has some really great things going on. The plot is great. It’s definitely a thinking person’s X-Men. And don’t get me started on the acting. Hugh Jackman is excellent as wolverine (as if he wasn’t in the 6 movies before this). Jennifer Lawrence sizzles as mystique, Michael Fassbender is regal as Magneto and this is one of James McAvoy’s best performances yet. All the other members also give solid performances, and one of my favorite was Evan Peters as Quicksilver.
         
               Another part of the movie which is good is the story. It is incredible, riveting, and awesome till the credits roll. And one more thing which I liked was that at the halfway point in the movie when the intermission occurred, I had no idea what would happen next. When a movie can do that to me, then it is one of the greats. The dialogues are witty and the score is classic x men.
          
              I really liked the opening when the camera zooms through DNA and you can hear the classic X2 theme. That was when I realized that Bryan Singer was back. And it is his game through and through. Good job man. We missed you.

Cons:
            I really have only one con about this movie. The graphics are great for the most part. But there are a few scenes in the past involving the sentinels, which really didn’t work for me.

Final Verdict:
            The best X-Men movie yet. Great Job Bryan Singer. Guys please go watch this movie. It is awesome. It is more of a sci-fi film, more than a superhero movie. It gets an 8.5/10 and my Medal of Honor that it won’t disappoint.



Comments

  1. E.S.Chandrasekaran24 June 2014 at 04:37

    u seem to be a savvy for sci fic.Well hats off!!!! well begun is half done but forget not half done is always incomplete.Do u with all celerity pine to review only sci fi or it is just a tyro trial? U ought to ponder over sending your comments to forth estate too and that will get u a due recognition. I started reviewing books -be it religious ones or socio-related ones and later i did my journalism and worked as a copy editor at Macmillan company.Good writers need not always b good speakers. But i could feel that u have an edge over English which tries its best to b elusive. never mind i shall shepherd u in every possible way.Later u can c some of my letters and articles published in the hindu. All the best

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  2. Emjayreviews9024 June 2014 at 05:02

    Thank you so much sir. Your review means a lot to me. I will take initiatives to follow your advice. once again Thank you sir.

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  3. E.S.Chandrasekaran24 June 2014 at 05:39

    celerity is speed, pine is wish, tyro s beginner. sorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrri dont feel iam verbose this is a force of habit and as a teacher of english iam bound to use any word that comes handy to me which might sometimes embarrass the receiver. whatever, let us have a rapport between us and i hope u will make me say that u r my future votary,can i? thou shall not hesitate to get a bit of advice. First be grateful to your mom and dad who have given u a chance to grow under my guidance.Let me also thank them for so sweet to move with and i always laud your parents' english quest and their handling of english is awesome which i can rarely c in non-english teachers. tomorow i will bring some published letters i need your help during lunch to load them in my blog.my own scanner has a gliltch.so u r my teacher tmrow and iam your taught.ha hah ha ha ha ha aha aha aha aha ah

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  4. E.S.Chandrasekaran24 June 2014 at 17:46

    spare time today with me as i a yet learn the tricks of blog operations

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  5. E.S.Chandrasekaran25 June 2014 at 05:30

    i have posted some published articles in my blog with the help of computer sir.

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