Nicely done

Rating: 8/10 (29 September 2015)

Y'know, I've gotta be honest, it's not all that hard for an X-Men movie to please me. Cast Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, don't call it "X-Men United", and already you're on your way. And with "Days of Future Past", aside from the killer story hook, I really just came here hoping for Sentinels. Yep, giant robots. I'm an easy mark.
But it's also loaded got just the right ingredients (Fassbender, McAvoy, a slo-mo shootout set to "Time in a Bottle" and Jackman continues to be a series highlight; he is unbelievable in this role. I was surprised at just how fringe Halle Berry has become, her role almost non-speaking. It's the right way to go.
This is a fine movie, both as a comic book spectacle and as an adaptation of a landmark Marvel storyline. It capably juggles a boatload of goings-on during two concurrent time periods, and the battle scenes are pretty well done, too. Basically, they didn't screw it up. And they could've. It's a stellar return to the series for Singer, and I'm looking forward to "X-Men: Apocalypse".
8/10