X-Men: Days of Future Past

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Rating 6.5 out of 10

I have been a big fan of the X-Men movies since the first one almost a dozen years ago.  I had high expectations for this Xmen movie.  Probably too high.  I thought this movie was okay but not great.  It's one where most of the action is shown in the two minute trailer.

The movie starts in the future where the government made mutant killing robots have gone rogue.  Besides killing mutants they have started killing humans too.  You know what that means.  Re-runs of the Good Wife will no longer be on the air.  How do we stop these unstoppable robots?  Professor X and Magneto (Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen) know the starting point was when the creator (Game of Thrones Peter Dinklage) was killed by Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) thus creating fear by the President to green light production of the robots.  The plan is to have mutant Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) send someone back in time and stop her.  The only mutant that can withstand the trip is Wolverine (the never aging Hugh Jackman).

Wolverine is sent back to the 70's where President Nixon was in charge and of course everyone wore huge bell bottom jeans and big floppy pimp hats.  Mystique doesn't go down easy.

As I said there wasn't enough action for me.  They highlight many of the mutants and give you a sliver of their powers. Even the main star, Wolverine, is under-used.

This is a decent movie but not nearly as good as it should have been.