Brilliant...

Rating: 9/10 (20 April 2015)

I saw this over the weekend off HBO GO, saving it, having heard great things about it, and "Days of Future Past" indeed lives up to the hype!
The "X-men" series is not my favorite of the countless super-hero universe film series out there, and I enjoyed the original trilogy, but I thought "X-men: First Class" was actually the best up to this point. DOFP may even be better. I just thought it was brilliant how the two worlds of the pre- and post- reboot were brought together. I can't imagine how this would work in most of the other super-hero franchises (even though it was dabbled with a little in "Star Trek" with the Mr. Spock character). For instance, you really couldn't have Michael Keaton and Christian Bale play younger and older versions of Bruce Wayne, but Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy blend perfectly together I'd say.
And Michael Fassbender has got to be evolving as one of my favorite actors, having just seen him in a little film called "Frank", in which we don't even know it's him necessarily until the end of the film..?? And what a brilliant way to re-introduce the beloved Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) character to the others. I wondered how they were going to do that before going into this. And did I mention the awesome cast??- again, a blend of the pre- and post- reboots- Famke Janssen, Ian McKellen, Ellen Page, Halle Berry, Jennifer Lawrence, and one of my favorite leading men right now- Peter Dinklage. And that dude playing Nixon was a hoot! LMAO