Review by Clay N Ferno

Produced by Lauren Shuler Donner, Bryan Singer,

Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker

Screenplay by Simon Kinberg

Story by Simon Kinberg, Matthew Vaughn,

Jane Goldman

Based on Days of Future Past by

Chris Claremont and John Byrne

Directed by Bryan Singer

Starring Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender,

Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin,

Ellen Page. Nicholas Hoult, Peter Dinklage,

Shawn Ashmore, Omar Sy, Daniel Cudmore,

Evan Peters, Fan Bingbing, Adan Canto, Booboo Stewart,

Josh Helman, Lucas Till, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart

Director Bryan Singer is back for an epic cross-time caper with X-Men: Days of Future Past. The latest Marvel Comics summer blockbuster merges the casts of the previous X-Men films and offers a glimpse at a not-so pleasant future.

Drawing inspiration from the comic book storyline of the same name, mutants in the future are forced to wear inhibitor collars or fear being eliminated by robotic Sentinels.

There are differences in the stories, however.

The movie doesn’t take direct cues from the famous storyline, rather it deftly adapts plot points from each of the other X-Men movies (Including Matthew Vaughn’s 2011 X-Men: First Class) to weave in and out of possible timelines. Are you a fan of Doctor Who and The Wolverine?

Singer delivers with this all-star cast and intelligent storytelling.

The movie opens on the future, as Bishop (Omar Sy), Blink (Fan Bingbing), Colossus (Daniel Cudmore), Kitty (Ellen Page) and Ice Man (Shawn Ashmore) fight off Sentinels. Our new brand of Sentinels are unlike any you have seen in the comics, more T-1000 than robot, with the ability to change form to fight the mutant enemy.

Before long, we’re treated to a meet up in China where surviving X-Men meet up with the old guard of X-Men: Storm, Wolverine, Professor X and Magneto. Actors Barry, Jackman, Stewart and McKellen are of course all reprising their signature X-Men roles.

Divergent from the comic storyline, Kitty has a new skill whereby she is able to send someone’s consciousness back into the past (reserved in the comics for Rachel Summers). In order to escape their current fate, someone must go back in time to stop the Sentinels from being invented. Wolverine takes Kitty’s place this time because of his healing factor and the fact that he doesn’t look all that different!

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