This Film Rights All Wrongs

Rating: 10/10 (23 May 2014)

This film is as good as First Class if not better, which I consider as the best film in the franchise.
I didn't expect too much from this film though I was anticipating a lot since the news came out, one of the reason is I didn't have faith in Bryan Singer. The old X-men trilogy has lots of holes and the First Class had just rounded everything up, and making a time travel movie would've ruin everything once again. But after watching the film tonight my worries vanished and were replaced by hope. It even rounds up better - It gave a new future for the franchise.
I somehow even think this film is made to fix the wrongs by X-Men 3, the last stand, which killed almost every beloved character except the one couldn't die. After TLS the franchise could only do prequels to explore the past, or focus only on the Wolverine who can stand on its own, or them both. The franchise seemed like running out of paths. Now since this film recreated a 'future', at the end of this film, the storyline eventually goes back to somewhere between 1 and 2. After this film, as long as the future sequels to this film keep things in place, the franchise will get a fresh start and could do anything possible due to this time-has-changed plot without a reboot that would force fans to say good-bye to all the beloved moments of the past films.
New characters are quite good - including Blink and Quicksilver. Especially the latter, who gave the film most of its laughing moments. And the scene with Quicksilver in its high-speed motion is no doubt going to be one of the greatest examples of using high-speed cameras. Wish them to take part in future installments.
Although I gave this film a 10 stars, I didn't mean it was perfect. It is the same reason I gave 10 stars to The Avengers, because both films take characters from other well-developed films and did them more than justice. The fact that the character inconsistency bugs me all the time. I couldn't say its a goof, as there is a 10-year-gap between this film and First Class, but keep guessing what MIGHT have happened is just an distraction during watching. And there seems to be other unexplained connections between this film and the original trilogy, such as, where are the giant robot things in the first three films?
After all the pros outweighed the cons and I can't wait for more future installments. With a film collection that started 14 years ago, MCU now have a real opponent.