Welcome back X-men ! its been awhile

Rating: 8/10 (4 September 2014)

As once a jaded and disappointed fan of the recent film of x-men 3 and the first stand alone wolverine film. It left a bad taste in my mouth to a point that it took me a long while to watch x-men first class. So walking into this film i had no expectations with nerves on edge. Thankfully i strolled out of that theater with a smile & stomach filled. I was pleased with just about every aspect of the film! Now lets get down to this, yes its a time travel film. As a seasoned veteran of sci-fiction films and TV i can overlook logic and not let it bother me as long as the story is using the tool of time travel well. The characters and circumstances are what is going to sell this plot point. So if time travel drives you crazy then good luck. There wasn't any major issues i could find while using the time travel tool or anything really to knit pick. So the story goes, in the future sentinels which are human military grade machines standing a few stories high made to hunt, capture and kill mutants. While unfortunately, they appeared to have taken over everything on earth & have became an unstoppable force that not even the most powerful mutants can stop. The kicker for the sentinels is that they adapt to every mutant ability within seconds or minutes, hence damn near invincible. How did they manage to develop this ability? well it all goes back to the 1980s( or close to it) if I'm correct where mystique is captured by government authorities after an assassination of a top defense official. In a nut shell they reverse engineer her genes in a sense and weaponize them into the sentinels. Here is the main plot point of the story in which they send wolverine back in time to this period in history to prevent the assassination of the official and stop mystique from carrying out her plan and being captured.
Throughout the film the story moves in and out of the past to the present. Wolverine really carries this film while quicksilver is the comedy relieve in terms of his super speed ability which had some truly amazing scenes! The conflict between professor xavier and magneto is high and their conflicting points of view stay steady throughout the story. Magneto is not driven by anything but his believe in the inevitable war between humans and mutants. Beast is living with xavier at the time and is helping him with his disability as a result of magnetos antics in the previous film. While wolverine is recruiting magneto, xavier and quicksilver in the past. It soon turns into a hunt for mystique. Despite magnetos questionable alliance to the group and ultimately hoping to turn the very first sentinel prototypes against the humans. The race to stop both mystique and magneto ensues but every ones fate still rests in the hands of mystique.
In the future xavier and magneto are held up in a secret location hiding from the sentinels in the mountians. There is a time table of course and its only a matter of time before the sentinels find them and attack with every weapon in their arsenal. My only problem with this part of the movie is that with so many mutants in the film not many had enough time for character development. There was two unfamiliar mutants named sunspot and blink that were in the film that i didn't have any idea who they were and unfortunately when their deaths arrived it was a little trivial. But their teleportation powers were pretty cool. They were truly obscure characters in the x men universe unless of course your an x men comic junkie. Bishop, iceman, colossus, storm , and kitty pryde were the main mutants. In the final battle storms and magnetos powers were under utilized for the most part. I was expecting them to bring some serious destruction to the attacking sentinels and becoming the last standing mutants but it was short lived and storms death was quick and anti climatic. These were some minor issues i had, but was still entertaining.
Lastly this film was a huge step up from the previous films ! the writing was spot on and just about every character in the film was entertaining. There was a few plot holes here and there but none worth mentioning in my opinion! Definitely would consider owning this bad boy. Hopefully the writing stays strong and the characters continue to be true extensions from the source material.