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Plot |
In the near future the government designs and manufactures hundreds of giant flying robots that are virtually unstoppable to the X-Men who are their intended targets. With the X-Men dropping like flies Professor X (Patrick Stewart) and Magneto (Ian Mckellen) advice a plan to reset time and wipe these murderous machines from existence. They theorize that they can send Wolverine’s (Hugh Jackman) consciences back in time to his younger self so he can fix the timeline to their advantage by removing one event from spiraling out of control. But even with certain doom being leveled on top of them the X-Men of the past are reluctant and even refusing to cooperate. Now it is up to Wolverine to make them listen as the future steadily approaches. |
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Character Development |
Just like the acting this wasn’t a film for giving room in the story for character development. All changes in behavior were mostly instantaneous. The story channels this as smoothly and easily as coming about in a sailboat and with as much planning and effort. |
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Acting |
Some moments shine better than others, but this isn’t really an acting picture. It is more of a reacting picture, yet I give all the cast accolades for dodging obstacles and pretending that a world exists that isn’t really there. Beyond the dazzle and spectacular brilliance that could describe most of this film there were the times that the acting leaped past the perfunctory, it is in those scenes which gave the acting some added weight, the scattered moments where the dialoge lasted more than a minute and gave the time where a character could emote a feeling. |
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Overview |
As a new installment to the X-Men franchise this movie hit all the pressure points. The special effects were top notch and the story made a great deal of sense. Judging from the collective skillsets that all the X-Men possess when they are working together there would need to be an antagonist that would be a powerful threat and I believe that the producers have pulled out all the stops to make that happen. I was genuinely impressed. It was also enjoyable to see how the story would tie the new and old X-Men together. I was reminded how the new and old cast members of Star Trek franchise were tie together for their one big film — ‘Star Trek: Generations’ (1994). I think this X-Men film tops that old next-generation film though. There were so many well moving parts in ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’. The time travel aspect was quite creative. It was like the same device Christopher Reeve’s character used in ‘Somewhere in Time’ (1980), by a means of projecting himself into the past by using the power of his mind. And who better to traverse the past than Wolverine, he seems to be the glue that hold the X-Men franchise together. No other character has been given two movies solely to themselves. He is in fact the bridge that connects both storylines. I hear this is just the start to a larger universe of X-Men to come and if so they have laid the foundation for a bright and fruitful future. |
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