A Really Outstanding Movie

Rating: 9/10 (25 May 2014)

There is no question that time travel can be a tricky thing, but it's used here very successfully to link the old and new X-Men characters to great effect. I have been on my soapbox for the last several years about how high tech has replaced good stories (as in computer gaming). Most of the movies now seem to be four or five high tech scenes that don't look very real involving undeveloped characters with clumsy, padded bridges from one CGI scene to the next (see, e.g., Godzilla, the Transformer movies, the latest Percy Jackson and much of what else is out there). Au contrare here, where the acting is just spectacular (my kudos to the younger Xavier and Magneto, as well as Lawrence, Jackman and others), and the story makes sense and does just fine on its own. In this situation the special effects - and they are good - are just the icing on the cake. And isn't Hugh Jackman a welcome sci-fi version of Clint Eastwood? The actors shine, the plot makes sense, when it all falls together in these Marvel masterpieces it's just a wonderful thing. Highly recommended.