I Loved It

Rating: 9/10 (10 March 2019)

Continuing my plan to watch every Hugh Jackman movie in order, I come to Days Of Future Past
Plot In A Paragraph: In 2023, The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.
After the more character driven (but still with action) The Wolverine, I remember being sat in the cinema, with my son, thinking this was such a step back, during the all out action/CGI fest that was the opening 10 minutes. I ended up leaving, thinking it was possibly my favourite X-Men movie.
Rewatching it, for only the third time today, I still had the same initial thought, and the same thought at the end.
I have to applaud this series of movies for hitting some interesting social and political hot zones. I love both versions of Charles and Eric, but I prefer Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique over Rebecca Romijn. I really enjoyed Quicksilver too. The kitchen scene in The Pentagon is a real highlight.
The movie also has an excellent villain in Game Of Thrones star Peter Dinklage, playing a mutant-hating arms manufacturer with an awful name Bolivar Trask. A bloody anagram of Stark, as a surname is lazy and awful.
X-Men: Days Of Future Past grossec $233 million at the domestic box office, to end 2014 as the 9th highest grossing movie of 2014.