Just what the X-Men universe needed!

Rating: 8/10 (29 May 2014)

At first I gave this film a 7/10 rating as I thought there wasn't enough action, but after I got home and thought back on the film I couldn't help but think that that rating didn't do the film justice. Yes, there wasn't as much action as I would have liked, but this film wasn't about the action. This film corrected a lot of the wrongs which were made in X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, so the 'talking' scenes were needed.
There were plenty of things I loved about this film: - Wolverine made this film for me! Hugh Jackman was brilliant once again, not just as the comedian of the film but also keeping you on the edge of your seat in other scenes. Just an overall great actor and perfect for his character.

I loved the new characters that were introduced! Blink (Bingbing Fan) was my favourite and the way her teleportation power was portrayed in the film was amazing! Also, Bishop (Omar Sy) was another character who I enjoyed watching, and I definitely think we'll be seeing more of both of these either in their own origins films or in future X-Men films. The character I didn't think I would like was Quicksilver (Evan Peters); after seeing him in the trailer I assumed he was going to be cheesy and over the top cocky. However, I couldn't have been more wrong. Even though I thought the blue hair was a bit much, Peters did a brilliant job and his comment to Magneto about his 'mother dating a guy who could control metal' was a nice touch as well. Lastly, Toad's (Evan Jonigkeit) makeover in this film was a huge improvement from previous films in my opinion; just a pity we didn't see much of him.

One thing I didn't like while watching the film was that there was no main mutant bad guy. Yet, as the film goes on you realise that this is where you see Magneto turning into that human hating villain we see in the first 3 X-Men films; which was brilliant!

In my opinion, the ending was perfect. After Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) stops Magneto and saves the future from the creation of the Sentinels, we see the dark future we've been watching all film disappear and we see Wolverine back at Xavier's school. Here, we see all the original cast back together (even Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) and Cyclopse/Scott Summers (James Marsden), and even Kelsey Grammar returns as Beast/Hank McCoy!) which really got me excited for what could happen in the future (an X-Men 4 and 5?!).

There was only a few things which bothered me: - I thought this film was based a bit too much on Mystique, time which could have been used on other characters who didn't have much screen time; which leads me on my next point...

Havoc/Alex Summer (Lucas Till) was one of my favourite characters in X-Men: First Class, and I just thought his cameo in this film was pointless. Really would have loved to have seen more of his character getting involved. Same with Toad and Quicksilver.

Lastly, how is future Prof. X/Charles Xavier (Patrick Stuart) alive?! This still hasn't been explained and it really bothers me! I know we had that scene at the end of The Last Stand where we hear his voice in that other body which implies his consciousness is now in that body, but how is he back in his original body? I know I should probably just forget about that film but I just want an answer!

All I can say is, thank you Bryan Singer; because this film was needed to bring balance back to this universe. Now I've seen this I can finally say I'm excited for the X-Men franchise to continue!