X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

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Fresh and Exciting

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

I watched this movie in theaters with a friend and thoroughly enjoyed it. Good cast with new faces and perfect throwbacks to the past of the X-Men. Wolverine really steals the show and we get the Sentinels, those mutant-stomping robots that could be compared to the Frankenstein monster. I especially liked James McAvoy as Professor X, the leader of the X-Men. There were other superhero sagas I enjoyed, especially the Avengers, but this one took home the gold. It might be even better than that one. And it leaves the door open for a sequel. If you enjoyed First Class, this could be the one that outdoes it. I found this movie much better than X2. I wouldn't mind watching it again either.

It's clearly the best of all the X-Men films and the whole franchise including the Hugh Jackman Wolverine Stand-Alone movies and Ryan Reynolds appearances as Deadpool. This is a nearly perfect crossover of the old X-Men trilogy, the new bunch of mutants and at the same time this film deletes every mistake made by X-Men: The Last Stand. It's just sad to see that it's Wolverine who is going back in time and not Kitty Pryde. It would've been a perfect opportunity to give her a bigger role here. But it still works. Hugh Jackman has great chemistry with Michael Fassbenders Magneto and James McAvoys Charles Xavier. Also big parts for Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique (here way better than in First Class), Nicholas Hoult as Beast and a small but scene stealing moment for this incarnation of Quicksilver played by Evan Peters (and by Aaron Johnson in The Avengers: Age of Ultron). It's a fun ride. It's a time travel movie well made. It's handling a lot of characters very well. It's entertaining from start to finish.

Jennifer Lawrence is still a massive casting fail but you have to tip your hat to the hiring of Booboo and Bingbing. You know somebody on set had some laughs. This has some good eye candy, a mostly great cast, outstanding action, excellent tunes, fantastic FX AND timeless humor. It does come with the usual time travel problems and it has a few other issues but it's a good enough movie that you don't care. I watch this every year.

"X-Men: Days of Future Past" is not just a wonderfully entertaining and enjoyable film to watch in the cinema, but it is actually a movie with a good plot. Perhaps I like time-travel stories a bit more than the normal person, but I found the writing of this film to be extraordinary for an action film. The movie features memorable scenes, great stunts and action sequences, funny and quotable lines (as almost all action films nowadays do), and cool characters - Wolverine, Quicksilver, and young Magneto, especially. The movie is not infallible, sure, and it's not comparable to "The Godfather" or whatever else classifies as a "truly" incredible, top-quality film, but it is good in its own right. It's one of the best action films I have ever seen and I am not ashamed to admit that I saw it in the cinema twice and now also own the blu ray. It's possibly the greatest film of the X-Men series, but I might not be one to comment on this because I'm not a particularly huge fan of the series. Still, it's an excellent superhero film.