I was worried...

Rating: 9/10 (30 May 2014)

When I first heard about this film project, I thought it was great that someone was going to attempt one of the truly groundbreaking story lines of Marvel comics. I also thought that the filmmakers would find some way to mess it up. After all, though I loved X-Men: First Class, I wasn't sure that the magic would continue with this film. Rather I was dreading something closer to X-Men 3. Though there are some points that are not made clear (how is it that Wolverine can be sent to the past in the way he is? It is different from the way a Kitty Pryde is sent back in the comics, which did make some sense). If you are willing to let that point go (and you have to, or the film will be no fun), I think this does a great job with the idea of time travel and how some errors can be corrected before they are set in stone. And we also see a rather nice story of redemption.