sorry it took me so long to put this up but I finally got time to see it last night so here's my review of the 7th instalment of the X-Men franchise entitled X-Men day of futures past. The movie reunites the cast of the original X-Men trilogy and the younger cast of the X-Men First Class and only the idea of putting together all these actors deserves credit.
Most of the story takes place in the past where The Wolverine travels to in order to save the future. In the future the Mutants and the humans that helped them have all been killed with few exceptions. The sentinels (the robots) created by Trask possess Mystique's ability and therefore they are able to adapt to fight any mutants. This is why Sentinels completely wipe out mutants in the future and Wolverine has to go back to the past and prevent Mystique from killing Trask and start the war between the mutants and the humans.
When Logan gets to the past in his younger body he realizes that many things are different that what he remembered, he has to get the help of Professor X who now walks thanks to a drug developed by Beast which allows him to walk but as a downside takes away his abilities. Once Professor X and Beast decide to help Wolverine they work together to break Magneto out of a very special prison 100 stories below ground in the Pentagon. Magneto was the one blamed for the death of J.F. Kennedy and they locked him away in a prison without any metal. In order to break him out they seek the help of Quicksilver who let me tell you looked amazing. It's not so much his look but his powers that looked amazing. The way they made him look, as if he was bored because things around him were moving too slow was fantastic. He definately stole the show for the scenes he was in, and basically he alllowed Magneto to escape all by himself. There was also a minor Easter Egg when he said "You can control Metal", "My mom used to go out with someone who was able to control metal" a clear hint at the fact that Magneto is his father, they just don't know it yet. With Magneto and Professor X reunited we are presented once again with the never ending clash between the two of them and their ideologies. They both had two ways to solve the problem and when Magneto fails to save the day he realizes that his actions were only leading to the future he was trying to prevent. Mystique realizes the consequences of her actions and decides to save the day for once. I very much like the fact that even though Wolverine is the main character, he does not save the day at the very end.
The movie had some big inconsistencies and continuity problems but once you get passed those the movie is amazing. It did bother be a bit when they didn't explain why Xavier is alive and why Wolverine has adamantium claws in the future.
The ending of the movie is amazing, Wolverine goes back to the future and because of its actions in the past many things have now changed in the future. Beast, Cyclops, Tempest and Jean Grey are all alive and seeing them back at the school was amazing. This feels like the start of something rather than the end and in fact the post-credit scene at the very end gives us a glimpse of the new villain. Apocalypse is coming!
Overall the movie was great , the character development was fantastic, the portrayal of Professor X and Magneto by two different actors was simply epic. Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique and Evan Peters as Quicksilver were simply awesome.I just can't wait for the next movie and I am really looking forward to see the X-Men cross path with the Fantastic Four.
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