MINOR SPOILERS ONLY, DON’T WORRY, IT WONT HURT.
-★★★★½ out of 5
“It’s a calibre of a superhero film magnificence.”
This movie is so good I don’t even know where to start! It’s definitely one hell of a ride and also the BEST X-Men movie everrrr!
I have to say that this movie went beyond the superhero films usual timeline and that’s according to the title itself ‘Days of Future Past’, and the premise has been recognized by everyone, comic book fan or not, that the story will revolve around Wolverine’s mind travelling back to the past to settle some maleficent beginnings which are the Sentinels that will rock both Mutant and human’s world in the future.
WATCH THE PAST BEFORE FUTURE PAST
One thing you need to do is to watch the entire X-MEN franchise, from X1, X2, X3, X-MEN ORIGINS: The Wolverine, First Class, and The Wolverine, to get to relate to Days of Future Past. I did even watched it all again weeks before.
HEAVY BUT GREAT STORYLINE
I have to say that the storyline is a heavy one; the jump from the future back to past and back to another longer past is tricky and that is definitely needed to be executed very well, or else it will end up confusing or dragging. Especially on timelines; the writers have to be careful on what era to drop some of the events that happened, but what-the-hell; you wouldn’t even notice not until you read stuffs online.
But hail to the screenwriters, Simon Kinberg, Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman (which to be honest, I have no idea who they are, but BRAVO!) who gave justice to the entire X-Men Universe. They are given this huge responsibility to revive the Universe because of the critically failed last film of the original trilogy, which was X-Men: The Last Stand, and if you might not remember, it’s the film where Professor X, Jean Grey, and Cyclops died and Rogue plus Magneto lost their powers to some kid who has the ability to ‘cure’ mutants that enrages fans up to this date.
The film is also surprisingly humorous, which was never present in the previous trailers and it was a great shortcoming. Evan Peters’ portrayal of the fast and hilarious Quicksilver was panned by fans before the release because of the costume and hair and stuff but then; you just can’t judge a book by its cover, eh? He has one of the best sequences in the film that will take you on the edge of your seats laughing. It’s very effective and endearing. I was hoping for him to have plenty of time but I guess we’ll see more from him in X-MEN: Apocalypse.
The director, Bryan Singer, calls Days of Future Past, not a prequel neither a sequel but an inbetween-quel. He just made that up, but it all made sense. It is a story in the future as a sequel to X3: The Last Stand and The Wolverine that jumps as a sequel to X-MEN: First Class which made it a prequel of sorts… does that make sense? Anyhow…
THE EMINENT DANGER
The positive thing about DOFP is that there’s this eminent danger which is the pure element to make a superhero movie work (not to mention Captain America: The Winter Soldier). The fact that there’s an indestructible and very powerful enemy is the formula to make-it-work. It’s when you are unsure of your favorite character whether he or she’ll make it or not is the best part of the DOFP and The Winter Soldier. There’s the similarity in eminent danger in both films, but different in plot.
If we put down The (not-so) Amazing Spiderman 2 here, it’ll be overshadowed. I can’t almost remember anything good about the film. Besides the poor storyline; there was no eminent danger there; and that’s one very important thing that was really missing.
Now I’ve proved that to make some superhero movie work; there has to be an element of uncertainty to the mortality of the characters.
IT’S NOT ABOUT WOLVIE
The story wasn’t even Wolverine-centric but also no one overshadowed the performance. Overall, the character projection on screen was very wise and efficient; no one outshined one of the other. Instead, the characters were complementing each other for the benefit of the entire film.
ACTOR PERFORMANCE
My partner would not agree to me to this, but I forgot about Jennifer Lawrence here. Her presence was here, but because of the intense and captivating story; she was gone… she was Mystique. Actually, all the roles played by actors were well portrayed and I love how committed they are to make each character work.
And I also have a feeling that Peter Dinklage will be the actor of the year this year based on his appearances in Game of Thrones and DOFP. (*wink *wink)
Everyone was amazing! Everyone got it all worked out! Bravo!
DELETE X1, X2, X3 and X-MEN ORIGINS: THE WOLVERINE
Not necessarily, but technically the entire story above X-MEN: FIRST CLASS is now to be forgotten and now will be replaced by the Days of Future Past’s sequel: X-MEN: Apocalypse. Why? Because DOFP is said to be the apology for the X-MEN: The Last Stand which was a flop; but didn’t give us a heads up that it will hurt the other two original X-MEN movies, yet still the film has beautifully weaved the entire X-MEN Universe. But if you’re still up wanting to watch the films chronologically; here’s how it will look like:
X-MEN: First Class
X-MEN ORIGINS: The Wolverine
X-MEN
X2: United
X-MEN: The Last Stand
The Wolverine
X-MEN: Days of Future Past
X-MEN: Apocalypse (to be shown in 2016)
OVERALL
Overall the movie was totally entertaining, mind boggling and enthralling. It’s a calibre of a superhero film magnificence. A definite 4 ½ out of 5 stars!
X-MEN: Days of Future Past is a 2014 American superhero movie starring Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), James McAvoy (Young Xavier), Michael Fassbender (Young Magneto), Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), Halle Berry (Storm), Anna Paquin (Rogue), Ellen Page (Kitty Pride), Nicholas Hoult (Young Beast), Peter Dinklage (Trask) and Ian McKellen (Older Magneto) and Patrick Stewart (Older Xaivier). The film is directed by Brian Singer (X-MEN and X2: United) and distributed by20th Century Fox.
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