X-Men: Days of Future Past {Movie Review}

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**VERDICT**

This is probably the best movie in the X-Men franchise. There is a great plot that brings the two worlds (past and present) of the X-Men movies together which means there are a whole bunch of cool characters whose amazing powers are beautiful to watch, especially in tandem. The special effects and fight scenes are awesome and well executed. It has a stellar cast as well, which includes my favorites Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, and James McAvoy.

It also has the most hilarious scene I have ever seen in any X-Men film; it involves the character Peter (aka Quicksilver). He is in the film for just a short time but he was such a scene stealer (the same way he steals everything else, I now realize). The other scene stealer is Raven (aka Mystique) who has really amazing combat moves. Like, woah.

The plot was based on a famous comic book story with the same name, but they had to make some adjustments in order to make it fit with the film universe. For example, in the comics, it was supposed to be Kitty Pryde who gets sent back to the past, but the Kitty Pryde of the movies wasn’t even born in 1973. So they realized that it would have to be Wolverine, because he has a mutant healing factor and longevity, which means that the same actor could play him in the past and the future.

That said, I don’t think you need to watch the other X-Men films in order to enjoy this film, but if you did, it will definitely be more fun for you, as you can understand who the numerous characters are without having to resort to asking your seatmate or having to put up with her reacting to everyone with gasps, namedrops and background stories in hurried confusing whispers (I am the seatmate in this scenario, by the way). But if you don’t have such a seatmate and have a lot of burning questions after the film, you can always read this Buzzfeed article.

You might want to stay put after the credits, as there is a short scene that shows a glimpse of what the next X-Men film will be all about. Here is an explanation of what it means.

In the film when Peter (Quicksilver) learns of Magneto’s powers. He remarks his mom use to know someone that did the same thing. This is reference to the fact that in the comics, Magneto is Quicksilver’s father.

The filmmakers selected the “Days of Future Past” storyline because it would allow the filmmakers to reconcile any continuity dissonances within the “X-Men” film series. The time-travel element also allowed actors from the original film series and the intended reboot that was X-Men: First Class (2011) to appear in the same film together.

The addition of Evan Peters as Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver to the cast sparked wide discussion over the direction of the character who is also slated to appear in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). Quicksilver had been discussed previously as a potential character in both X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and The Avengers (2012), but legal complexities over the license to the character resulted in his omission from both films. However, in May 2013 both Marvel and Fox Studios announced a resolution to the previous legal issues, and that Quicksilver would appear in this film as well as an Avengers sequel, though under certain parameters: no reference to Quicksilver’s membership in the Avengers can be made in an “X-Men” film, and no allusion to his relations to the X-Men or Magneto (the character’s father) can be made in an “Avengers” film; the rights agreement between Fox and Marvel even goes so far as to stipulate the character cannot be referred to as a “mutant” in any Marvel film. Additionally, the day after the announcement of Peters’s casting, Marvel and Fox entered into a legal standoff over provisions of the rights agreement for the character, including the issue of whether Peters would be allowed to portray Quicksilver in any other film outside the “X-Men” franchise, possibly necessitating a second actor to play Quicksilver in any Marvel film, resulting in two different versions of the same character appearing in two competing film series. Ultimately, Fox and Marvel decided to cast different actors in the part for the “X-Men” and “Avengers” films, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson taking on the role in the latter sequel, thus preventing any connection between the two franchises and keeping the X-Men confined to a separate universe from those of the Marvel cinematic universe.

{Via IMDB}

Related Reads:
X-Men III: The Last Stand
Xmen Origins: Wolverine
X-Men: First Class

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