There is enough outstanding acting and effects in the film to make it worth seeing on a big screen, but the movie is forgettable.

Rating: 7/10 (12 June 2014)

X-Men: Days of Future Past, a random point review, off the cuff
1. You will never see better acting in a superhero movie. While emoting lines like, "You sent me from 50 years in the future to stop the sentinels from destroying us all" and other seemingly silly science fiction lines, the actors sound somehow credible.
2. The sets and filming are fine, especially a couple of fantastically filmed scenes. No 3D was required. I think the days of the 3D fetish are over and only a few 3D films will be made in the future, those that will benefit from it.
3. Costumes, fine, but they didn't make enough of the 70s styles like American Hustle did.
4. Plot, okay. Not great, nothing new, kind of a hodge-podge of plots from Star Trek and X- Men smashed together.
5. The super villain machine. Pathetic, the worst in the movie. While the transports were interesting and different, the monsters, for lack of a better word, were a combination of monsters from Terminator, Thor, and other movies. You would think someone on the creative team could come up with something mildly original. Perhaps a monster based on a centipede...
6. Music--I barely noticed it, and that's a good thing.
Bonus: There are two scenes that tapped so deeply into my teenage nerd mind, as if Dr. X had contacted that part of my brain, that I was blown away. Seriously.
Oh, did I say that Raven/Mystique was fabulous? That Jennifer Lawrence can act, and hopefully she will get better, more challenging roles as her fame increases.
Rating: Matinée. There is enough outstanding acting and effects in the film to make it worth seeing on a big screen, but the movie is forgettable.
Peace, Tex Shelters