Epic movie! Not perfect though..

Rating: 6/10 (13 June 2014)

A 6? Yes, a 6!
First off: don't get me wrong here. I always have and always will love all manner of superhero comic books, games, T.V. series and movies.
Yes! X-men: Days of future past is one of the most awesome x-men/comic movies there is, at the moment. All of the heroes and villains almost stunned me with awe when they appeared on the big screen (again). I nearly shed a tear of joy when I finally saw Colossus kicking ass. All the action scenes in this movie are exactly what you want to see your beloved characters do. The story was also satisfying from beginning to end and indeed easy to follow. Well.. maybe not until the very end, but I'll get to that.
I came across multiple posts where no-one could find any flaws with this movie. Here is the part where I disagree.
Remember people, this is not just another X-men movie. This is a sequel! And that's where I'm basing my.. somewhat disappointment on. If they make more movies, try to imagine marathon watching the movies and this comes directly after First Class and before the next.
First, First Class left a beautiful opening for further development for existing and new comic heroes and villains. But in my opinion they totally ignored this. Yes we got to see a lot of new (blockbuster) characters, but no development whatsoever. They're just there all of a sudden. So you would have to have a Marvel knowledge that goes beyond any previous movies to know certain characters. I know they also do this in other movies, but First Class did such an excellent job in multiple character development. In DOFP I had the feeling the only characters that were being developed further were Charles and Raven.
After the ending of First Class I can kind of understand Charles feeling a little low. But did we really wanted to see an x-year skip so Bruce Way... I mean Charles can pull himself together? Not me at least. I was hoping to see how they would find more troubled mutants in their younger years, building the school to what it would ultimately become. Meet or accidentally create some fun villains along the way. Now I understand this could kinda give it a TV-series feel, but they could have figured something out. And also, was this an X-men movie with Wolverine? Or the other way round?
The story was.. awesome! No, really. But herein lies my biggest problem, it felt like the last in a line of movies. The epic finale where we have spent so much time working towards. After seeing this movie, should they make another one, how are they going to top this? Apocalypse, maybe. But are we going to make another time skip to where the school is fully built and suddenly "oh noes, up in the sky, is a bird.. carp it's Apocalypse". Sure there are more options left for a more epic battle than this was, but it sorta felt to me like they wanted to do this movie quick before some of the cast of the previous three movies kick the bucket.
Actually what kinda ruins the ending a little bit for me. Is the whole time-travel to make THE PREVIOUS THREE MOVIES (witch they were at first trying to intertwine with) UNDONE! They just did not happen after this movie? To give the older movies a sort of happy ending? Or so they won't have to worry about continuity anymore? And yes the comics have this and they have multiple time-lines, universes and whatnot. But it was a cheap trick clean slate in Heroes, so why not here?
I've only seen the movie two times so far. So I am aware that I might have missed the flawlessness everyone is talking about due to the awesomeness that was there. Maybe I just don't understand the whole time-travel-thingamajig. So feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. I might even change my opinion myself after watching it again and again... and probably again.
X-men: Days of Future Past as one of the most epic superhero movies out there! 9,5/10
X-men: Days of Future Past as a Sequel to X-men: First Class. 6/10