Film 50 - X-Men: Days of Future Past

X-Men: Days of Future Past - 24/05/2014

Back in the early 90's I was a massive fan of the X-Men cartoon, and still to this day love the introduction.

So imagine how happy I was when in 2000, I went to watch Brian Singer's X-Men, and again in 2003 for X2, and also imagine my disappointment at Brett Ratner's Xmen Last Stand, which was terrible.

Brian Singer returns to the helm for the newest installment of the X-Men franchise and brings along many of the original cast to reprise their roles, X-Men: Days of Future Past.  The trailers for this seemed quite erratic and I was concerned that the film was trying to do too much and would be very confusing.  Weaving the future cast (Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian Mckellen etc) with the First Class cast (James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence etc) playing the same characters, and throwing in big robots (Sentinels) for good measure.

X-Men DOFP is brilliant! The story is perfectly done and the characters really engaging.  Great nods of humour to the original films and comics, with excellent effects.  One character that really stood out for me was one that may cause a little problem for Marvel Disney, this was Quicksilver.  His scenes were brilliantly entertaining and fun, and as the same character (but played by a different actor) is due to appear in the next Avengers film can it be done as well?

The bad guys are evil, the Sentinels are reminiscent of the hunters from the good Matrix film, and you really do root for the good guys.

Clare hadn't seen any of the X-Men films before and went into this fresh, and she loved it too.  Admittedly, some of the names escaped her by the time we had left the film, with Clare referring to them as "the metal guy" and "The quick one", but I knew who she meant.

What makes this film even better, is Mr Singer decides to completely wipe the slate clean by erasing Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine from the X-Men film continuum. Resetting the mistakes made by those films

When I went watching The Amazing Spiderman 2, I commented that Marvel needs it's webbed hero back, with X-Men I believe it is in the right hands and I am looking forward to the next installment (which is hinted at with the post credit scene.....bring on the Apocalypse)