A Near Perfect Film!

Rating: 8/10 (26 May 2014)

X-Men: Days of Future Past, simply, is not just a good superhero film but a good film.
It excels in all areas of its acting, directing, script and effects.
Featuring the blend of the two generations of X-Men, DOFP feels like an X-Men movie should. It ditched the overly cheesy story of origins and features more heart than The last Stand. It also vastly improves on the characters first introduced in First Class.
The real heart of the movie though is the performances. Hugh Jackman, Ian Mckellen and Patrick Stewart bring it as always but the real standout of the cast is James McAvoy as a young Charles Xavier. McAvoy really shows us the beaten down and depressed hippie that Xavier has become. His performance is one of the best parts of the film.
Although the best part of the film must be twenty minutes half way through the film when the Wolverine and Xabier need help from a young mutant. It adds a nice comedic touch that X-Men movies always have.
One of the only problems with the film is the under use of the actors. Patrick Stewart and Ian Mckellen were horribly underused when their presence is always enjoyable.
The only other issue is the time travel which is inevitable in any movie with time travel as it never makes any sense. The ending involving time travel feels very cheap and somewhat detracts from the rest of the film.
Overall, these issues don't ruin the entire film and it is still a very enjoyable ride that just narrowly beats out X2 as the best X-Men film to date.
(Here's hoping Apocalypase doesn't ruin this.)