Mike's Review: This is a must see movie. And I will say it again... I love how the story line stays true to the past story lines and characters and ties everything all together. All of the little bits of past movies playing into this story line as well as keeping the same actors and actresses past and present playing there characters to a tee, really makes the movie a lot more fun to watch.
I did have a few issues with this movie which didn't seem right to me. The whole future sentinel scenes seem to make it way to easy and fast to take out the mutants, especially some of the more well established ones like Iceman and Colossus, just killing them off pretty much with out a fight. And the other thing that was strange was Wolverines claws...didn't he get his metal ones chopped off in the last Wolverine movie? Why did future Wolverine still have them?
Best Scene: In a word...Quicksilver. Also I really liked the ending and how it just seemed to tie in really nicely to all the past movies.
Mike's Rating: A must see!.
Bean's Review: Enjoyed this movie. Very interesting storyline,
which was not dependent on an overwhelming amount of action sequences.
Hugh Jackman, as always, did a great job as Wolverine and his nude
scene was captivating! James McAvoy, as the young
Charles Xavier, did a fine acting job and was really convincing. I
also enjoyed the interaction amongst young Charles, the Beast and
Wolverine. Jennifer Lawrence, as Raven/Mystique, also did well in
playing her part. Overall a great cast of characters and
a good job of developing the characters. Trask’s character was just
evil enough, so as to allow the audience to despise him. And good/bad
character of Erik/Magneto was also done well.
I also enjoyed the tie-ins of the present characters, and the dangling of the bad guy who changes Wolverine’s body.
Best Scene: McAvoy’s scene when he tells Logan
that he does not want this future. I also thought the scene with
Quicksilver in the Pentagon was quite good
Bean's Rating: Full price ticket
A.C.'s Review: The superhero stampede at the box office continues with X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. It’s been hit or miss with superhero films this year Captain America: The Winter Soldier being a hit and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 being a miss but we are firmly back in the hit territory with the latest X-MEN film.
Combining
the casts of both “branches” of the X-MEN film series which include the
original films and the 2011 prequel X-MEN: THE FIRST CLASS this
ambitious film
delivers on its promise of two solid hours of entertainment.
Time
travel is generally a “win” when it comes to movies and it is employed
here by the X-MEN of the year 2023 to go back in time and stop a
devastating war with
the robotic Sentinels that eventually spells doom for mutant kind and
normal humans as well.
Hugh
Jackman delivers his usual excellent take on Wolverine and James McAvoy
as young Charles Xavier pretty much holds the entire proceeding
together with his performance.
On the other end of the spectrum Halle Berry is given almost nothing to
do as her star has waned in recent years and I believe if X-MEN was
made today she never would have been cast. Meanwhile Jennifer Lawrence
who’s star is in full bloom is given a very prominent
role and the movie revolves around her character specifically.
The
story takes place mostly in 1973 but cuts away every now and then to
the post-apocalyptic future to follow events there as the Sentinels
close in on Prof X,
Magneto and the last band of mutant hold outs.
The
film balances action and drama and never lets the action get out of
control to the point of where it is mindless (Man of Steel and Pacific Rim to name a few
examples) and can be considered “this year’s AVENGERS” though it plays
with a much more serious take.
It
was very enjoyable and I liked it being a period piece back to when I
was a kid to get a look at all the primitive technology which was state
of the art back
then. That’s always fun. I look forward to the next film due out in
2016.
Best
Scene: The Pentagon scene was great but I really liked the climax with
Magneto moving a giant stadium and dropping it around the White House.
A.C.'s Rating: Full Admission
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