X-men: Days Of Future Past
With Mystique preventing William Stryker from appropriating a group of mutant G.I.s for Trask's research, the ultimate X-Men join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past.
1 June 1946, Dundee, Scotland, UK
24 July 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
5 December 1981, Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico
22 May 1959, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1 October 1972, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
11 June 1969, Morristown, New Jersey, USA
March 10, 2017
Director Bryan Singer infuses some actual humour up in this piece, and even though the whole thing is a sprawling, stupid mess (JFK?), it's entertaining, which is the best you can hope for in a series on track to outpace Nightmare on Elm Street.
June 20, 2016
Their position in the league has slipped since Iron Man and co. But this one shows the X-Men still play a good mental game, one more suited for grown-ups who like their superpowered characters rubbing up against history and the real world.
May 28, 2014
The results are both dazzling and intimate, clever and - during one tour-de-force sequence - spectacularly funny.
June 13, 2016
X-Men: Days of Future Past is genuinely exciting and a complex addition to the franchise.
May 23, 2014
Quicksilver ... is the coolest of this picture's new guys, zipping around so fast ... that he can taste soup, rearrange guards' limbs, and nudge bullets off their trajectories all in the time it takes to blink.
May 29, 2014
Much of this takes place in the early 1970s, which gives the filmmakers an excuse to haul out lots of vintage kitsch and make some rather tasteless references to the Vietnam war.
May 23, 2014
The plot is about a fearful society whose expansion of its security apparatus has unintended consequences, but Singer doesn't even touch the story's topical resonances... There's also no real moral quandary to be grappled with.
May 23, 2014
I would be remiss not to note that tucked away amid all the existential melodrama is perhaps the most hilarious set piece ever to grace a superhero film.
July 14, 2016
X-Men: Days of Future Past is, on its own, a fine film, funny in all the right places, impressively acted, and rousing in its action.
June 13, 2016
It's an absolutely lavish bouquet to series fans, who get to see the entire X-saga summarized and effectively reconceived through Wolverine's desperate and time-addled perceptions.
September 22, 2016
It is especially impressive that Days of Future Past is a success; a film this gooey and complex, with such business-minded scope, should not feel like a real movie at all.
June 15, 2016
Yes, it's a Marvel cartoon, but don't underestimate this very entertaining summer blockbuster's ability to shift our collective consciousness. It can tinker with your dogma.
