Good movie, didn't meet my expectations!

Rating: 6/10 (4 August 2014)

I used to be a pretty big X-Men fan, but after 'X-Men: The Last Stand' i was disappointed. Fortunately, 'X-Men: First Class' was excellent and got the franchise back on the right track. That's why I was really looking forward to 'Days Of Future Past', having high expectations. It turned out the movie wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either.
In 'Days Of Future Past', the X-Men of the future are facing extinction, so they transfer Wolverine's mind back in time to 1973 where he must recruit Professor X and Magneto to stop Mystique from assassinating a human, an act which led humans to start hunting the mutants in the first place, so they can change the future and survive.
On the plus side, for a movie with so many characters it was a nice surprise that all of them felt meaningful and had enough screen time. Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, was once again amazing. He doesn't simply portray Wolverine, he IS Wolverine, end of story. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender are incredible and the chemistry between them is great. Mystique was a secondary character in the first X-Men movies, but since she is now being played by the amazing Jennifer Lawrence, it was only natural that she would play a big part in the plot and would have more screen time. Honestly, every time she was in a scene you couldn't take your eyes off of her she's just captivating. For me the most surprising character was definitely Quicksilver. He was perfect: cool, fun and with an insanely strong power and the kitchen sequence with him was jaw-dropping. Wish he had more screen time!
Time travel movies are very tricky and unfortunately 'Days Of Future Past' has a lot of holes. The biggest one in my opinion is the ending, which was what bothered me the most. Logan wakes up, the school is up and running again and all the characters that died in the previous movies are alive again. Why do i have a problem with that? Let me explain. Since the school is running and Logan, Storm, Jean and Scott are teachers, that proves that the events of the first X-Men movie did happen. So then why did the events of the 'X-Men: The Last Stand' didn't happen?? From my logical point of view, in the new future either all of the events from the first three X-Men movies should have happened, or none. What i think happened, was that the writers simply wanted to rectify the wrongs that 'X-Men: The Last Stand' made and simply chose to accept that the events of the first X-Men movie happened and then arbitrarily chose to "delete" the "Last Stand" events, so they can use the characters that were previously dead for future movies.
Furthermore, the thing that i believe the movie lacked the most was some good action scenes. There was A LOT of dialogue in this movie, but very little action. I mean the part where Magneto moved a whole freaking stadium was awesome, but give us some mutants fighting, like "First Class" did. As the tension was building up in the past, i was expecting a big showdown between Wolverine and Magneto, or at least between Wolverine and the Sentinels but they never came. Magneto beat Wolverine in 5 seconds and simply sent him flying and the Sentinels didn't really have an important role in that sequence at all.
'Days Of Future Past' left me a bittersweet taste. Great plot, amazing actors and characters, but poor action and arbitrary ending. With these actors and budget i believe they can do much better, hope the next X-Men movie called "Apocalypse" meets our expectations.