Monica's Movie Review: X-Men Days of Future Past: Thrilling, Action Filled, Emotional, Drama Packed, Fabulous Effects

 

By  Monica Peters

For those of you who are X-Men fans or newbies to the series, the latest release X-Men: Days of Future Past won’t disappoint. It’s not only a great action film--but a great film period topped with superior performances.  It is storytelling at its best and director Bryan Singer did a phenomenal job at executing a very complex storyline flawlessly that’s easily understandable to the movie goer.  You will definitely be gripped by some of the X-Men character’s personal backgrounds as the film will dig deep into their past lives including drug addiction issues. The film easily rivals X-Men 2 which is hailed as a popular favorite amongst hardcore fans of the series.

Quick synopsis:  Kitty (Ellen Page) sends Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), via his conscious, back in time to the 70’s with a mission of altering past historic world events to change what we know as the present day world with a mutant twist.  Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) is a critical component for the mission to be accomplished successfully. While time traveling in the past Wolverine recruits Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), the hilarious scene stealing QuickSilver (Evan Peters), Beast (Nicholas Hoult) and Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) to convince Raven aka Mystique to alter her past actions to change world history.  The recruiting process hits a few snags as Wolverine has to reacquaint his fellow XMen  with him and convince them that he was sent from the future.

Days of Future Past satisfies many unanswered questions from the previous series where the storylines lacked continuity. You'll get a kick out of James Brown quotes and a Sanford & Son snippet.  You will also be emotionally conflicted as to what your perception of a villain and a hero are as the lines become blurred.

 I'll stop before this review turns into a serious movie spoiler. If you haven't seen any of the prior films in the series, no worries you can follow along with no problem as the movies ties up many loose ends.

Everything you think this movie is, it isn’t.  Get ready for one heck of a ride.  This may be one of the best action films of 2014.

PG-13, 113 minutes.

 ....Monica Peters