9/10 Amazing, 1/10 Not That Great

Rating: 8/10 (25 August 2014)

When I originally saw this film, I saw it as a 10/10 film. It was the best X-Men film. Upon watching it again, what sticks out for me are the future sequences. I tried to approach the film, not as an avid lover of X-Men, but as someone who did not care for X-Men.
The beginning is okay as it starts in the future and has to get the film going. But as the film climaxes, the events in the future and the past are both coming to a climax. The future side is all action and it is unnecessary, because we know that somehow the plot will come to a resolution. And we know exactly how the future plot is going to end.
The past sequences are so tense that they did not need any tension at all in the future sequences. The future 2.0 should have just been left up to the main characters to form in the past sections as it proves difficult throughout the whole movie to do.
Everything about the past sequences is terrific. The acting, the drama, the tense action scenes, the story line, etc. Fassbender and McCavoy are once again the stand-outs in this film as they were in First Class.
I hope with the next X-Men film, the film will take place in the 80's and only the 80's.