I'm not sure where they are taking the franchise from here

Rating: 8/10 (31 May 2014)

I am not really sure if they can successfully continue the X-men franchise after this movie because, in a way, it seems to tie up all of the loose strands that have come out of the other films. Also, ignoring the fact that there are still some inconsistencies with some of the other films (which I have outlined elsewhere I believe) Days of Future Past also seems to bring the two X-men Origin films into connection with the later X-men films (which has now gone substantially beyond that of a trilogy considering the second Wolverine movie is actually set after The Last Stand).
Days of Future Past started of very clunkyly, and somewhat annoying, because, well, I didn't particularly like the sentinels, and also it seemed as if they were trying to pack way to much into the opening sequence in the film (namely that war had broken out between the mutants and the normals, and the mutants were on the losing side). However, once they had managed to send Wolverine back in time the film itself began to pick up again.
The film itself has a rather strange chronology, and that is that in one sense it is set a number of years after The Last Stand, but it is also set fifteen years after First Class, which means in part it is also an Origins movie (though not quite, though the same actors that are used in Origins are used in this film as well). The catch is that Wolverine's back story seems to be incredibly blurred in a way because according to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, around this time (and the time of First Class) Wolverine was hanging around with his brother Sabretooth, however Origins and this film seem to suggest otherwise (though the ending does sort of line up with the first Wolverine movie, but I won't say too much about that).
Another thing about this film, which is similar to The Last Stand, was that they managed to make Magneto appear to be much, much more than a superhero and almost godlike. Okay, he has power over metal but it seems that his power is so phenomenal that he is able to lift up bridges and baseball stadiums, and in a way it sort of did nothing to suspend my disbelief. Also some of these scenes seemed to simply be done to show off the special effects and really had little to do with the plot anyway (sort of a wow factor). As for the story, well it seems as if this story is a popular one from the X-men comic, namely that the war is going badly for the mutants so they send Wolverine back into the past to attempt to prevent the war from ever beginning. Apparently there was a story arc from one of the comics, and there was also a cartoon series using the same premise (though it seemed that it was Professor X who was trapped in the future as opposed to him sending Wolverine back into the past).