Another First Class film as the X-Men return!
The first three X-Men films are subject to a lot of controversy, with the majority of the devoted fans feeling let down by the film adaptations of the comic book heroes. However 2011's prequel, X-Men: First Class symbolised a vital shift in the franchise's big screen style.
X-Men: Days of Future Past, as suggested by the name, contains time travel. This means that the film is not only set in the distant future where mutants are hunted down by giant robot sentinels, but also in the past, shortly after the events of First Class.
The film grasps all attention from the start as we are introduced to a mixture of notorious and lesser known mutants including Kitty Pride, Iceman and Colossus as well as Warpath and Blink. After being attacked by a menacing group of Sentinels, the group are forced into an action-packed fight in which a range of powers are shown. Despite just being introduced to the characters it is still saddening to watch each one slowly and brutally murdered by the looming robot creations. But this sadness turns to confusion as we are re-introduced to some of the most notorious characters from the comics including Professor X, Wolverine and Magneto. Suddenly the other mutants have risen from the dead. It turns out that Kitty Pride now has the power to send Bishop back in time to warn the group of the potential attack. This gives them time to move out and continue to survive.
It is revealed that the cause of the sentinels introduction was back in 1973. Mystique, played by the returning Jennifer Lawrence, killed Bolivar Trask, the mastermind behind the Sentinel Programme before being captured and tortured for her DNA. This gave the Sentinels new adaptation powers before they are introduced after the danger of mutants is realised. In the future it is believed that if Trask was not killed then his ideas would never have been implemented.
And so it is down to Wolverine to save the day. It's a well known fact that Hugh Jackman plays the perfect Wolverine and this is once again apparent in the 2014 blockbuster. Backed up by a young Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr, played respectively by James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, he must find a way to stop Mystique and save the lives of mutants all over the world.
