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Starring
Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence. Rated - PG-13. Four out of five stars.
"X-Men: Days of Future Past" begins in the future part of the title, a
post-apocalyptic world where mutants and the humans who helped them have
been either destroyed or ...
Movie Review: 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' with Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence
Starring Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence
Rated - PG-13
Four out of five stars
"X-Men: Days of Future Past" begins in the future part of the title, a
post-apocalyptic world where mutants and the humans who helped them have
been either destroyed or imprisoned in what looks like concentration
camps. How did this happen? You can thank advanced war machines called
sentinels, designed with the help of the DNA from the mutant known as
Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence).
Fans of the original X-Men movies will almost immediately get the
satisfaction of seeing Professor X (Patrick Stewart), Magneto (Ian
McKellen), Wolverine (Hugh Jackman),
Storm (Halle Berry) and Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) back together again --
but for how long? They're on a mountaintop in China, and like the
relentless sentinels in "The Matrix," who could also burrow through
metal and concrete, these sentinels are closing in.
While writer Simon Kinberg went to great lengths to make sure he crossed
his paradoxes and dotted his wormholes, the time travel element here
falls apart under close scrutiny. Then again, time travel falls apart
under close scrutiny in every time travel movie, so let’s forget that
and focus on the chaotic goodness that is "X-Men: Days of Future Past."
The strength of the entire X-Men series is the actors, and James
McAvoy’s performance here as a pseudo drug-addicted, self-pitying young
Charles Xavier is worthy of its own indie film. Now, put McAvoy and
Michael Fassbender (Young Magneto) in an airplane together, arguing
about who screwed over whom the worst, and you have one of the
best-acted scenes in the entire Marvel film canon. And that’s just the
tip of the Iceman!
"X-Men: Days of Future Past" also gives us what could be the most
entertaining, creative and funny scene in all of the X-Men movies,
featuring Evan Peters ("American Horror Story") as the lightning-fast
Quicksilver conducting a jailbreak. When this film is available for home
viewing, it's a scene fans will watch over and over. It is a classic.
"Game of Thrones" star Peter Dinklage also is pitch-perfect as Bolivar
Trask, the man behind the sentinel program and, more or less, the bad
guy.
The weakness of "X-Men: Days of Future Past" is that, at times, there’s
just too much going on. It's also annoyingly derivative, never mind the
Matrix echoes. But these are minor complaints. "X-Men: Days of Future
Past" is a tremendously entertaining film that's gorgeous to look at and
satisfying to the core.
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