future adaptation of my past comics (screen)

Rating: 4/10 (27 July 2014)

I can't understand why comics and movies can't be one and the same nowadays.
Here, the divorce starts with the movie poster: for those who have Byrne's cover in mind, the awful art and meaningless composition used for promoting this adaptation is a disappointment: if you can understand what the movie is about, you are then a genius.
Logically, the movie is in the same vein as its poster: instead to adapt Claremont's gripping drama (by the way, he has a cameo as a member of the panel!) and put Byrne's drawings in live action, the movie decides to do its own (bad) way by telling a new complicated story and using awful new design (a bit like the disastrous remake of « the earth stood still »).
To resume, all the future time-line is crap: sentinels are ugly, Shadowcat is telepathic and worst of all, the X-men are well alive: all the power of the original story was built on the fact that Rachel Summers and Kitty were the only one living so that their mission just couldn't fail. By the way, by changing all those essential parameters, the movie also erases the big paradox of the comics: As the daughter of Scott and Jean, how could the past in which Rachel is sent was one in which she isn't born yet and her mother has been already killed: If you remember Doc Brown's lessons, you know that it can't happen.
The present time-line is much better but it's the direct follow-up of the previous movie. So if you don't have seen it (like me), you will be a bit lost as it's a really unexpected team roaster for X-men (Wolvie, Magneto, Xavier, Beast and Mystique). In addition, the finale wasn't really exciting as it was very similar to the finales of all previous movies.
In fact, the movie is only good in its first part, from the arrival of Wolvie to the summit in Paris. The 70s were coolly done and Quicksilver was the only one mutant really used to his potential.
As I have already written about «Thor », Hollywood really doesn't understand comics: They are poor writers who think that big special effects are visual achievement !