X-Men: Days of Future Past has so quickly gotten to the rank up of the BEST films ever and easily one of the best X films that this review is going to be short and sweet. Essentially, this is Wolvie film (again!) but this time Wolvie gets to go on a time travel - but in the mind. Apparently this film is for visual, filmic, comic, AND literature illiterate. Source Code mined this area years ago and did it much better as did Donnie Darko or ... nevermind. So no points for the time-travel thing - which is most of the film. But the real shocker is the casting since except for Patrick Stewart nobody looks, talks, or feels like the comic-book version of themselves. And their movies versions (Beast, being a good exception) aren't all that much better including Jackman - who I never thought was that great as Wolverine.
It's even impossibly annoying at the sheer badness of logic which most X-films even Brett Ratner's foray kept that to a minimum. My favorite lapse is that Chuck can walk in this film but it takes away his MENTAL powers. BECAUSE???!!!??? On one point I do agree with everyone, the Quicksilver element is amusing (though that's not really the comic book Quicksilver - and since this is Magneto's SON how do they not recognize one another???!! Stupid, stupid, stupid film that does the whole freedom versus determinism debate.
Jennifer Lawrence looks OK ass-wise but a poor let down from Rebecca and there are some interesting fight scenes - but even those make no sense - like how can Beast and Magneto even fight since Magneto can control the IRON in ANYONE's bloodstream. A nice ten minutes with Quicksilver but not much else. Sentinels look horrible, too, and the original designs were hardly good to begin with. A waste of a film. But if it's your cup of tea - by all means, dig-in.
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