A way to reboot the series without actually rebooting it

Rating: 10/10 (31 May 2014)

I've always been a big fan of the X-Men movies but I have never read the comics. So that being said I didn't hate X3 or Origins like most everybody else though I do have to admit they were definitely the weakest in the series. I was pretty excited for this new installment in the franchise especially after I started hearing some of the early reviews. I loved X-Men First Class and was really excited to see the cast of that movie and the original cast come together in one movie and this movie did not disappoint.
The acting in this movie was all around great. I love the actors that were chosen to play the younger versions of the characters from the original series. Michael Fassbender in particular is just perfect for young magneto. Every time he is on screen even in first class when he was more of an hero or anti- hero there was an ominous feeling surrounding him. James McAvoy is also great as young Charles Xavier. I love how after First Class they have managed to further humanize the character. I personally like Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique a lot more then Rebecca Romijn Like with James McAvoy I just feel like she does a good job humanizing the character. Thats not to say that I think that Patrick Stewart and Rebecca Romijn did a bad job because they both did really good as well. I like Nicholas Hoult as Beast for the same general reasons I like the other younger characters and sense I already mentioned the humanizing thing a few times I'll just leave it at that and of course Wolverine was awesome as always.
Some of the best action in this movie takes place in the future with the original cast. The future sentinels were great villains and really the first time in the X-Men movie series where there was a real sense of hopelessness when facing down an unbeatable enemy. Part of me wants to say that the future characters were a little underused but overall I think that for what the movie was they were in it for a good amount of time. The past had some great action to though. For example Magneto floating in the air carrying an entire stadium is definitely a highlight in the movie. Anytime Wolverine starts killing people with those claw bone or metal it really doesn't matter it's always cool. I also really like watching Beast fight I think its cool to watch the ways he fights much more like an animal then any human
I think that its really cool the way they have kind of rebooted the series without actually rebooting it by changing the time line. The writers did a great job with the time travel aspect of the story which has proved to be something that is really hard to do in other movies. I'm not saying that there were no holes in the plot what so ever but I think they will probably keep fixing some of the continuity errors as more movie in the series are released in the future so I'm not to worried about any plot holes.
Overall I really liked this movie and don't have any complaints
So I'm giving X-Men Days of Future Past a 10/10