X Men - Days of Future Past Review: stellar cast, stellar performances, stellar cinema

Rating: 8/10 (24 May 2014)

First off, I loved it. When I was going into the theatre I really wasn't sure how this one is going to be considering the last Wolverine was a disaster for me. But I did have hopes from this perfect ensemble even though the trailer didn't work for me.
X Men – Days of Future Past has everything that an X Men fan loves and longs for. If you loved X Men First Class, this movie is a treat for you and is sure to blow your mind away.
Take a bow Bryan Singer for creating and presenting this spectacle to us. Kudos to the director, Bryan, for pulling this off brilliantly because I found the plot to be most complex and yet most entertaining so far! This X Men brings all the great actors from the X Men Trilogy, X Men First Class and others to you and that includes Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence (I am in love with you all over again miss), Halle Berry, Ellen Page, Nicholas Hault, Peter Dinklage of GOT fame, Evan Peters, Josh Helman.
I have to admit that I was conspicuous at a lot of times while watching the film and by the end I actually found this flabbergasting a lot more amazing. Why was I flabbergasted? Well because there's time travel, quantum physics and a hell lot of characters (I am not complaining even one bit)
The overall plot of the movie can be summed in this next statement. Wolverine is sent by X Men to about 50 years in the past in order to prevent the doom for humans and mutants. In the present, a war between mutants and non-mutants has led to massive destruction in the world. A few mutants who have survived are battling against Sentinels, the terrifying new soldier robots. Professor X played by Patrick Stewart, realizes that time-travel to 1973 could probably save their destinies.
Kitty Pryde played by my favorite Ellen Page has the power to take X men into the past and she leverages this power at the command of the Professor X take Wolverine back to 1973. And in just a moment, the X Men go forward to the past or an alternative present. Wolverine is required to stop Mystique, or Raven, beautifully and effortlessly played by Oscar winning actress Jennifer Lawrence with whom I have fallen in love with all over again. Mystique attempts to assassinate the anti-mutant scientist Dr. Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage), creator of the Sentinel programme, at a peace conference in Paris. As things turn out, Mystique is captured and her metamorphic properties were decanted through some horrifying and hideous scientific means.
Why does Wolverine need to stop Mystique? So that none of this would happen and the future of humans and mutants is not a dystopia. However he needs Magneto and Xavier's younger selves to join him, however they don't remember or recognise him in the past. What follows is prison breaks, astral projections, and several grisly mutant deaths. Truthfully, this incredibly ambitious mix of character, plot and spectacle could very easily go horribly wrong but not when Bryan Singer is at play.
There is a particular bullet scene which is created in absolute slow motion and though the creators have done a job worth an applause, I actually didn't find the scene as amusing as my fellow movie watchers in the theater did. In fact to be honest, had the same scene been enacted by an Indian filmmaker, everyone would have laughed it off calling it a Rajnikant stunt.
One of my favorite sequence in the movie was the climax sequence wherein an entire stadium is uprooted and fenced around the White House in order to kill the United States President for he is guilty of ordering a Sentinels program aimed at vanishing mutants.
Performances are incredible especially by James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, and Jennifer Lawrence who made us believe in each and every emotion of Mystique and we witness each emotion even through the body hugging quasi-nudity and you know there's nothing wrong in being sexy. Though Hugh Jackman was at his best however I really felt that other strong characters and performances did steal the limelight. I wish an astonishing actress like Halle Berry had more screen time but I understand that the writers and Singer wanted to be leal to the script and the plot.
The sets, costumes and action sequences are simply out of this world and you will be glued to your sit to not miss even a second of this brilliance put on screen.
My recommendation – you have to go and watch this one even if you are not an X Men fan for you will be on the edge of your seat at so many times.