Best X-Men movie yet!!!

Rating: 8/10 (22 November 2014)

Starring- Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, and Peter Dinklage
X-Men: Days of Future Past 8/10- I have been a fan of the X-Men films all of my life and when I saw the trailer for this new X-Men movie, all I could say was "Please let this one be good!" And my hopes were more than answered. With a cast as talented as this one and director Bryan Singer fixing all of the mistakes made in X-Men: The Last Stand, everything worked out better than I could have imagined. Days of Future Past combines all of our favorite characters from the previous X-Men films with exciting new concepts and effects to engineer ones of the best blockbusters of the year and the most exciting X-Men movie yet.
There is so much I could say about this sequel/prequel that makes it more unique and overall, better than its predecessors. The major thing though was the enjoyment of seeing all of the characters from the X-Men combined into one film. Anyone could have guessed that if X-Men could somehow do this than it would be a hit on this standard alone. The key thing though was pulling it off without ruining the entire film. I do not want to give away any specifics but Bryan Singer basically made his own version of time-travel to do exactly what was needed, and I have not seen this good of a time-travel movie since Back to the Future.
The acting is my and pretty much everyone's favorite part. This new picture features nearly everyone in it at the top of their acting game. I have seen all of the returning characters in other X-Men films and they all did tremendously well. The performances that I really enjoyed were James McAvoy, who plays young Professor Charles Xavier, and Jennifer Lawrence(big surprise),who plays Raven aka Mystique. I will be honest, I was a little disappointed by James McAvoy in X-Men:First Class because I knew he could have gone to another level of acting if he just figured out how to get there. He found out how in this brand new one. Jennifer Lawrence did not have as much experience acting in big blockbusters at the time of X-Men: First Class and now that she has, she was really able to display her confidence and comfortability in her character.
The special effects were all executing amazingly which is what I would expect from Bryan Singer by now. There is only one scene where I was really left in awe at how well it was done and everyone in the theater agreed with me and was even laughing at how funny it was at the same time. I do not want to ruin the surprise but make sure you are watching in all the scenes that Pietro/Peter Maximoff aka Quicksilver is in. The design of the sentinel robots was something I especially enjoyed and also seemed rather familiar to me. Even if the sentinel robots looked like they were copied from Thor, I do not think they could have been done better.
The plot pretty much speaks for itself in this film. The concepts and theories that were introduced though were nearly mind-blowing to the audience and leaving you thinking when you walk out the theater. Again, time-travel is very tricky to deal with in films because you have to be so careful using it. Even the slightest mistake could end up ruining the whole story, luckily that did not occur and the story was rewarded because of it.
Was X-men Days of Future Past the best X-Men? Yes, even better than X2. I very much recommend you see this movie in theaters and if you do, make sure to stick around after the credits.
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