Mutant Timelines

Rating: 5/10 (15 December 2014)

Seventh "X-Men" film is the darkest yet, as lethal giant mutant-killing robots called Sentinels have hunted down nearly all mutants, leaving a handful of survivors including Professor Xavier(Patrick Stewart) and Magneto(Ian McKellen) who devise a desperate plan to send Wolverine(Hugh Jackman) back in time by sending his mind into his 1973 self, where he must convince the younger Xavier and Magneto to team up and stop Mystique(Jennifer Lawrence) from inadvertently causing the disaster in the first place... Though lots of skill is on display here, the use of time-travel is preposterous, not to mention disturbingly nihilistic(what's to prevent the past from being changed again, without some kind of order to stop it?) and ultimately self-defeating, trying to rectify previous films' perceived mistakes that really weren't, and only succeeding in creating a big mess itself far worse than the previous films! Should have left well enough alone without the contrived inclusion of time-travel, a real cheat and cop-out after the plot paints itself into a corner it never should have in the first place...