Wednesday, 8 October 2014

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

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"Charles Xavier: The past: A new and uncertain world. A world of endless possibilities and infinite outcomes. Countless choices define out fate: each choice, each moment, a moment in the ripple of time. Enough ripple and you change the tide...for the future is never truly set."

X-Men Days of The Future Past is an American Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi film directed by Bryan Singer (Also known for The Usual Suspects) which was released to public theaters on the 23rd of May. It revolves around the distant future of the X-Men where robots known as Sentinels are rapidly sent to destroy mutants and cleanse world of them. Meanwhile the last fighting group of the mutants which is lead by the now friends Magneto (Ian McKellen) and Professor X (Patrick Stewart). They survive the sentinel attacks by sending Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) who has time traveling abilities, to the future 2 weeks and warning them of the attacks. Later on they reach the verdict that Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) has to go back in time to 1972 when Mystique/Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) shot anti-mutant Dr. Trask (Peter Dinklage) who invented the sentinels and feared America into using the sentinels against the dangerous seeming mutants. The plan works and Wolverine wakes up in 1972 where he needs to find Professor X and Magneto at much younger age to unite them and help stop Trask's assassination. Along the way he tackles his old buddy Hank/Beast (Nicholas Hoult) -who he had already seen the death of in the future- whom is protecting and helping young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) whom has gone handicapped after taking medications to keep his super-mind from working and giving him a slightly easier way to leave normal. After Wolverine convinces Hank and Charles to help him in his quest they have to go and break a young Erik Lehnsherr out of a prison cell under the pentagon which is the most protected cell in the world. To do so they need the help of a rascal named Peter a.k.a. Quicksilver who has the power of super speed and steals from convenient stores often. He joins them with no doubt as he would love to break into the highest security prison of the country. By the way I love the smart gaming reference with him being so fast he can play Pong with himself.
I quite enjoyed this film mainly because it was a smart way to kill the past franchise and move on with their own story. Now, I haven't seen X-Men First Class but I surly will in the future (no pun intended) but this movie impressed me enough to go and watch X-Men Apocalypse when it drops.

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