"If I could save time in a bottle . . . "

Rating: 8/10 (24 May 2014)

. . . the first thing I'd want to do is to put together a "mix tape" (to use 1970s lingo) of this slow-motion scene from X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST and the parallel segments from writer\director Sean Ellis' wonderful 2006 flick CASHBACK. Like all the Marvel movies, this one is over-the-top. If you think you can explain the plot well enough to make FUTURE PAST seem internally consistent to someone else, you're spending Waaaaay too much time in the Marvel Universe. However, just as Grandpa or Great-Grandpa expected eye-popping set pieces from the James Bond films of the 1960s and the 1970s, that's what America's Future demands of Marvel movies today, and FUTURE PAST does NOT disappoint. If I was in charge of a corner of Marvel Universe big enough to make one tiny improvement to FUTURE PAST, it would be to rename the stadium Magneto levitates in Washington, DC, as the home of the "Washington Mutants" National Football League franchise. But that's just me.