Directed by: Bryan Singer
Screenplay by: Simon Kinberg
Story by: Simon Kinberg, Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn
The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.
Took a while until I managed to continue watching the X-Men movies. Mostly because after First Class I started watching The Wolverine, which I've seen so many times I realised I didn't really want to watch it at that point. So I decided I'd watch Days of Future Past first, then Apocalypse and then maybe focus more on Wolverine.
Anyway, Days Of Future Past is another proof that these movies get better the newer they are - if by better you mean better graphics and way more epic plotlines. Sure, the quality of the writing is better in these newer movies, I won't argue with that, but unfortunately this movie is not that good. It's mostly because it's trying to be two things at once: it's trying to be a sequel for the First Class and it's trying to be Days Of Future Past.
If you haven't read the original comic, Days Of Future Past is set in 2014 and Kitty Pryde comes back in time to prevent that grim future from happening. But because this movie wants to be a sequel for First Class, it has to happen in the 1970's for some reason, so they can't use Kitty, so of course they go with Wolverine. I'm a big fan of the character, but still it would be great if these newer films were focused on someone else, like First Class and Apocalypse are.
Days Of Future Past is trying too hard to be this really epic story with the younger professor and Magneto, but with Wolverine from the original ones.
One thing that they do well is that when in the future the X-Men are fighting the sentinels, there's real desperation there. It would work even better if there were more X-Men we know well, now there's only like five and unconscious Wolverine. But now it feels like the fights in the future - that basically don't matter because the whole point is that Wolverine is trying to change the future by travelling into the past - have more feeling to them than what's happening in the 1973.
There are so many great details in this movie. There are scenes that are amazing but then everything around those scenes isn't so great. That Quicksilver scene? Pure gold, yet he only has like two or there important scenes in this movie. I'm just glad they used him more in Apocalypse. Also with Magneto there are few amazing scenes but then all in all he feels pretty useless.
The thing I hate most about these new movies is Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique., and the role Mystique has now. She doesn't feel like the real thing. Here it's like one-dimensional X-Men version of Katniss, a fucking mutant saviour for some reason. She's like a female version of Magneto: a seemingly terrifying villain to human beings but a saviour to mutants. Why doesn't Magneto have that role anymore, why is it given to Mystique? If she was played by a better actress, and if her character was more like she's in the comics, and not naked all the time, I would enjoy it more.
Also the make-up is incredibly fake looking in this movie compared to First Class. It looks hideous and I hate looking at it.
There were so many great characters in First Class and this movie doesn't use any of them, apart from professor and Magneto. They use Mystique, who I already complained about, and Beast who is real fucking plain compared to the other students in First Class.
The thing is, Days of Future Past could be good. It has story and with some fixin' it would be so much better. You could take the good things about this movie and write something better around them. Now it's just an seemingly epic superhero movie that doesn't make sense when it comes to X-Men timelines. There are some scenes that are so emotionally raw it's amazing, especially with Professor X, but then for some reason it just gets lost here.
Took a while until I managed to continue watching the X-Men movies. Mostly because after First Class I started watching The Wolverine, which I've seen so many times I realised I didn't really want to watch it at that point. So I decided I'd watch Days of Future Past first, then Apocalypse and then maybe focus more on Wolverine.
Anyway, Days Of Future Past is another proof that these movies get better the newer they are - if by better you mean better graphics and way more epic plotlines. Sure, the quality of the writing is better in these newer movies, I won't argue with that, but unfortunately this movie is not that good. It's mostly because it's trying to be two things at once: it's trying to be a sequel for the First Class and it's trying to be Days Of Future Past.
If you haven't read the original comic, Days Of Future Past is set in 2014 and Kitty Pryde comes back in time to prevent that grim future from happening. But because this movie wants to be a sequel for First Class, it has to happen in the 1970's for some reason, so they can't use Kitty, so of course they go with Wolverine. I'm a big fan of the character, but still it would be great if these newer films were focused on someone else, like First Class and Apocalypse are.
Days Of Future Past is trying too hard to be this really epic story with the younger professor and Magneto, but with Wolverine from the original ones.
One thing that they do well is that when in the future the X-Men are fighting the sentinels, there's real desperation there. It would work even better if there were more X-Men we know well, now there's only like five and unconscious Wolverine. But now it feels like the fights in the future - that basically don't matter because the whole point is that Wolverine is trying to change the future by travelling into the past - have more feeling to them than what's happening in the 1973.
There are so many great details in this movie. There are scenes that are amazing but then everything around those scenes isn't so great. That Quicksilver scene? Pure gold, yet he only has like two or there important scenes in this movie. I'm just glad they used him more in Apocalypse. Also with Magneto there are few amazing scenes but then all in all he feels pretty useless.
The thing I hate most about these new movies is Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique., and the role Mystique has now. She doesn't feel like the real thing. Here it's like one-dimensional X-Men version of Katniss, a fucking mutant saviour for some reason. She's like a female version of Magneto: a seemingly terrifying villain to human beings but a saviour to mutants. Why doesn't Magneto have that role anymore, why is it given to Mystique? If she was played by a better actress, and if her character was more like she's in the comics, and not naked all the time, I would enjoy it more.
Also the make-up is incredibly fake looking in this movie compared to First Class. It looks hideous and I hate looking at it.
There were so many great characters in First Class and this movie doesn't use any of them, apart from professor and Magneto. They use Mystique, who I already complained about, and Beast who is real fucking plain compared to the other students in First Class.
The thing is, Days of Future Past could be good. It has story and with some fixin' it would be so much better. You could take the good things about this movie and write something better around them. Now it's just an seemingly epic superhero movie that doesn't make sense when it comes to X-Men timelines. There are some scenes that are so emotionally raw it's amazing, especially with Professor X, but then for some reason it just gets lost here.
☆☆☆☆☆☆
6/10
