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Rating: 9/10 (25 May 2014)

Eleven years since Bryan Singer made an X-Men film, he is back with a force, and delivers his best X-Men film yet. While this is an amazing film, and a top notch film for the genre, I still hold the previous X-Men film, First Class, above this film. After all the issues previous films have had in this series, for example X-Men 3, Origins Wolverine, and The Wolverine, to connect everything back nicely like Singer did was an amazing task, and he succeeded in doing so.
As I just mentioned, this film, like the first two X-Men films, is directed by the great Bryan Singer. Lets be honest. When Singer left things got messy, no doubt about it. The only highlight from this series once he left was X-Men: First Class, which Singer has a story credit for. Singer brings back his great style back to the franchise. His action scenes are amazing, and with First Class being light on the action, this film is a giant step up in that department.
The film was written by Simon Kinberg, Jane Goldman, Simon Kinberg, and Matthew Vaughn(writer and director of X-Men: First Class). This writing team in addition to Bryan Singer righted a lot of holes that the films start to spring up once Singer left the series after X2. Now while some of the holes are fixed up nicely most are just patched over with the time travel element of the story. A story like this really needs the viewer to be detailed in what has happened in the lead up to this film. So watching all of the previous films is almost a must to see this film. As I as watching this film at the theater, a few people were asking their friends during the film what was going on because there is a lot of jumping back and forth from the previous films. So please go back and make sure you have seen all the previous X-Men films before you have watched this movie. Another great element of this film has to be the addition of Quicksilver, played by Evan Peters. Sure the character doesn't get much screen time, but with the time this character gets he dominates the film. You should leave the theater remembering that character.
This film was composed by John Ottman. He previously scored X2 for Bryan Singer as well as recent films like Jack the Giant Slayer(also directed by Singer), and Non Stop. While he hasn't been involved in this genre for a great many years, its like he never left. The score in this film was truly amazing. One of the best superhero scores in a long time. Up there with the great Hans Zimmer and his superhero genre scores.
Overall this is without a doubt a must see superhero film. In a year when superhero films are dominating the big screen, X-Men: Days of Future Past might be the best of them all. The hype you have been hearing is all true. Personally though I do still hold X-Men: First Class above this film. While the action in that film was light, the story and the characters were written a little bit better, and as I mention above, this film here does require some heavy viewing of the previous X-Men films. No matter how you rank the films though, there is no doubt that Days of Future Past is one of the better X-Men films.
9/10