Genre: Action/Science Fiction
Running Length: 2:11
Cast: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, Jennifer Lawrence, Peter Dinklage
Director: Bryan Singer
"The past: a place of potential promise, and possibility. We are the sum of our choices, as what we do now defines what we will do. Infinite decisions mean infinite consequences, for the future is never truly set." Professor X
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST is a film of grand ambitions and epic achievements but yet managed to retain an intimate scale. It doesn't feel like your typical superhero movie ie. no final grand showdown where our hero/heroes beats the pulp out of a bad guy. In fact, there is no single readily identified villain; the main characters have legitimate reasons for their behaviour. Days of Future Past is a very intelligent (aka Nolan's Dark Knight series) film and it plays out more like a sci-fi film aka Terminator, where our distant future is horrific and grim; mutants are massacred and graphically killed by the Sentinels - machines without soul or conscience. The only way to reverse the apocalypse is to travel back to 1973 and undo it all, where the meat of the film rests. Thankfully, Singer occasionally cuts the doom and gloom tension by inserting in some wit especially a jaw-dropping playful action sequence. Michael Fassbender, who dominated X-Men: First Class, is once again magnetic here but this sequel is truly McAvoy's show. The most powerful scene for me was a quiet sequence involving the past Charles Xavier who was desperate to numb his pain and failure and the dystopian future Charles Xavier who's wiser and hopeful; "The greatest gift we have is to bear their pain without breaking and it comes from your most human part, hope."
Indeed, hope is a function of pain/struggle.
Rating: 8.5/10
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