Redemption complete!

Rating: 9/10 (26 May 2014)

The X-Men franchise Brian Singer started, delivered us two great movies before spiraling a path downwards. X3 - the first X-Movie without Singer writing or directing - did not have what it takes storywise and had a mishmash of a plot. "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" is a movie best to be forgotten, almost bringing the X-franchise to its death. Then, with "First Class" and "The Wolverine" a road to redemption was taken, and reached its destiny in "Days of Future Past".
It's a thrill from beginning to end. Hearing the original theme music again felt like coming home, and then the movie itself: excellent.
We meet some new mutants, some familiar mutants, and however some of them gets cast aside too quickly - none of them feel redundant. The movie provides us lots of action, without stalling plot advancements.
Offcourse, it's not a flawless movie. It is never explained how Kitty Pryde acquired her new skill to send peoples minds into younger versions of themselves. Again, it's a Wolverine-centered movie... Apart from "first class" he never gets to take a back seat and thus upstaging other mutants. Granted, the plot points out a necessity for him to be the one who time-travels. And even with the time traveling, some of the plot holes established in earlier movies were not fixed.
However, in itself, this movie is brilliant. And even if not all plot holes get fixed, at least you leave the theater feeling that they did. Elaborating on all this brings me into spoiler territory, which is where I don't want to go. I would love for you to go see it and form your own opinion. Go do that now!