Best X-men movie to date.

Rating: 9/10 (25 May 2014)

Bryan Singer is back and at the top of his game. After directing two great Xmen movies (X-men 1 and X-men 2), he was out of the game. But after 11 years, he came back and delivered THE BEST X-MEN MOVIE TO DATE. He even managed to undo the damage done by X-men 3 in a glorious way. The future of the franchise looks brighter than ever.
Days of future past takes place well into the future where mutants are being driven to extinction by extremely powerful machines. To avert this, they send back Logan (Wolverine) back in time to stop this from ever happening. That's the main premise and although it is nothing new, Singer delivered it with perfection and I love time travel stories anyway. And Because of this story, a lot of problems have been fixed but I can't go into details because that will be spoilerish. :p
This movie is like a gift to X-men movie franchise fans. There are so many references to all the movies that came before it. Since majority of the movie takes place in the past, cast of X-men: First class is also back and seeing both the older versions and younger versions of famous characters from previous parts in one movie just has its own feeling. Think of it like The Avengers of X-men franchise. You know all the main characters, their back stories etc. They don't waste time introducing them again, they just role with it. And all the actors were at the top of their game. Hugh jackman, James Mcavoy, Michael Fassbender etc all were awesome.
This movie has a very helplessness tone in it and you really do feel the need of hope for these characters, especially the future ones because those Sentinels (machines) are scary powerful and are depicted perfectly. It has some great FEELS scenes too. I was so overwhelmed in some scenes. IT is not all dark and feelsy though, there is some good amount of humor and light areas thrown in too, timed greatly. Few movies blend so many different tones in such a great way.
Great action sequences and pretty good CGI. Soundtrack is good. It was so awesome to hear X-men 2 main theme song again during the openings. Would have been great if they somehow used First class soundtrack too in some areas.
Overall, if you loved X-men movies or even remotely liked them, this is A TREAT for you. One of the best comic book movie, easily the best X-men movie and best movie of the year so far for me. Just one advice before watching it though, do yourself a favor and rewatch all the previous parts before watching this to refresh your memory (Maybe you can skip X- men: Origins), you'll thank me. :p And there is an after credit scene so be sure to wait for that.
9/10