Last night I saw X-Men Days of Future Past. Nowadays whenever I go to a comic book movie that's not made by Marvel Studios, I go in a little skeptical. Especially for an X-Men movie because X-Men 3 The Last Stand and X-Men Origins Wolverine were terrible movies. However Bryan Singer is back directing Days of Future Past and that got me excited.
The movie opens and it shows the future and it is grim to say the least. It's similar to Terminator in the sense that war is desolating the whole world. The only way to stop it is to send Wolverine's consciousness back to 1973 and get Charles Xavier and Magneto to get together and stop the grim future from ever happening.
I must say I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. Bryan Singer still makes good X-Men movies. If this movie was bad I would remember him as the director who made Superman Returns. This movie did a great job at humanizing the characters. James McAvoy is great as Charles Xavier. In the first two X-Men movies you looked up to Charles Xavier but you couldn't relate to him. In this movie you can because when you see him in this movie he is at his lowest low. Micheal Fassbender is awesome as Magneto as well he is one of my favorite actors working today. As is Peter Dinklage who plays Trask in this movie. In the comic book Trask is not small like Dinklage is but he was still perfect for the role. Size doesn't matter for the role what does matter is acting ability. Jennifer Lawrence is also in the movie and without spoiling anything for those who have not seen it she is one of the most important characters in the movie. Another thing I love about this movie is it has a very clever sense of humor. The jokes were really well timed.
Overall this movie took the problems of X-Men The Last Stand and X-Men Origins Wolverine and it corrected them. I loved this movie, I don't know if it's the best X-Men movie we've had but it was definitely a great X-Men movie. I'm going to give this movie 4.5 out of 5 stars. If you're an X-Men fan, you'll love this movie and also I should mention there are some great Easter eggs and a great post credit scene.
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