Director: Bryan Singer
Cast: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Nicholas Hoult and Halle Berry
To boldly go where no X-man has gone before. This sequel of X-Men is like Back to the Future meets Star Trek meets Men in Black 3. You have Wolverine travelling back to 1973 to change the course of time. X-Men: Days Of Future Past (DOFP) is as epic as sci-fi gets. It’s complex. It’s cool. It’s engaging. It’s just not very intelligent.
Staying true to the comic books saga, DOFP starts with the Sentinels kicking the living day lights out of the X-Men in the future. On the brink of inevitability, Kitty and Bishop discover a way to time travel. So they decide to send Wolverine back to 1973, because his regenerative body and mind can survive the stress of time travel. His body stays but his mind travels to his past body. Intelligent! From there on, it’s an uphill task for Wolverine to convince young Charles Xavier and Magneto to come together and avoid the inception of the Sentinel program.
There are parts of this movie that just blow you away. The Spock-inspired moment when young Charles Xavier meets the old Professor X in the future is one such. Of course you can see Trekkie Bryan Singer’s odes to the sci-fi saga all through his film. This is also one of those rare movies that has both Captain Kirks – Patrick Stewart and William Shatner. Even if Shatner is just in a Star Trek clip on a TV in Hank’s lab in 1973. The deft fan boy touches by the director are nice.
But then there’s also a general absence of logic when it comes to the drama. Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class did things right. DOFP isn’t able to emulate the same sense of realism. Instead it opts for the implausible narrative with time travel and cause-effect scenarios. It makes for some pretty good entertainment. But when you decide to analyse it, it does seem like much ado about nothing. Here we have the mind bending abilities of Charles Xavier and the entire drama hinges on the X-Men trying to convince the US President and the maliciously ambitious creator of the Sentinels Boliver Trask to believe in mutants as friends and not foe. Perhaps a simple tweaking of the mind would get the job done. But no, you have Wolverine, Magneto, Beast, Professor X and most importantly Mystique play out action sequences that match The Avengers and Captain America in gusto.
As the average action buff will tell you, there’s no room for logic in car chases, fist fights and explosions. So we have a double dose of action. The X-Men battle it out in the past and the future simultaneously. It’s exciting to see the likes of Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and Halle Berry all on screen at the same time. Fan boys will revel at the sight of Jean Grey and Cyclops making a comeback.
Fassbender, McAvoy and Lawrence are the soul of this movie. You have the enviable cast, the powerful premise and yet the end result isn’t as spectacular as it should’ve been. You can’t have everything.
Cast: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Nicholas Hoult and Halle Berry
To boldly go where no X-man has gone before. This sequel of X-Men is like Back to the Future meets Star Trek meets Men in Black 3. You have Wolverine travelling back to 1973 to change the course of time. X-Men: Days Of Future Past (DOFP) is as epic as sci-fi gets. It’s complex. It’s cool. It’s engaging. It’s just not very intelligent.
Staying true to the comic books saga, DOFP starts with the Sentinels kicking the living day lights out of the X-Men in the future. On the brink of inevitability, Kitty and Bishop discover a way to time travel. So they decide to send Wolverine back to 1973, because his regenerative body and mind can survive the stress of time travel. His body stays but his mind travels to his past body. Intelligent! From there on, it’s an uphill task for Wolverine to convince young Charles Xavier and Magneto to come together and avoid the inception of the Sentinel program.
There are parts of this movie that just blow you away. The Spock-inspired moment when young Charles Xavier meets the old Professor X in the future is one such. Of course you can see Trekkie Bryan Singer’s odes to the sci-fi saga all through his film. This is also one of those rare movies that has both Captain Kirks – Patrick Stewart and William Shatner. Even if Shatner is just in a Star Trek clip on a TV in Hank’s lab in 1973. The deft fan boy touches by the director are nice.
But then there’s also a general absence of logic when it comes to the drama. Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class did things right. DOFP isn’t able to emulate the same sense of realism. Instead it opts for the implausible narrative with time travel and cause-effect scenarios. It makes for some pretty good entertainment. But when you decide to analyse it, it does seem like much ado about nothing. Here we have the mind bending abilities of Charles Xavier and the entire drama hinges on the X-Men trying to convince the US President and the maliciously ambitious creator of the Sentinels Boliver Trask to believe in mutants as friends and not foe. Perhaps a simple tweaking of the mind would get the job done. But no, you have Wolverine, Magneto, Beast, Professor X and most importantly Mystique play out action sequences that match The Avengers and Captain America in gusto.
As the average action buff will tell you, there’s no room for logic in car chases, fist fights and explosions. So we have a double dose of action. The X-Men battle it out in the past and the future simultaneously. It’s exciting to see the likes of Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and Halle Berry all on screen at the same time. Fan boys will revel at the sight of Jean Grey and Cyclops making a comeback.
Fassbender, McAvoy and Lawrence are the soul of this movie. You have the enviable cast, the powerful premise and yet the end result isn’t as spectacular as it should’ve been. You can’t have everything.
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