{"id":5340,"date":"2014-06-03T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5340"},"modified":"2016-01-07T09:46:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T09:46:24","slug":"x-men-days-of-future-past-12a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/reviews\/x-men-days-of-future-past-12a\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Men: Days of Future Past (12a)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Reviewed by Matt Adcock<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Director:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Bryan Singer<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Cast<\/strong>:<\/span>\u00a0Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Halley Berry, Nicholas Hoult, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Peter Dinklage, Omar Sy, Daniel Cudmore, Fan Bingbing, Adan Canto, Evan Peter<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Quote:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>&#8220;There is a new enemy out there: mutants. You need a new weapon for this war\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Plot:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nEver had that wish that you could go back in time and correct something that sparked the situation you find yourself in? That\u2019s exactly what Charles Xavier \/ Professor X (Patrick Stewart) plans when he finds his X-Men heroes being hunted down and exterminated en mass by Sentinels \u2013 machines designed to find and adapt to any mutant powered threat and kill it\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Only Logan \/ Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) has the regenerative powers to survive being bounced through time to his younger self and so he\u2019s given the task of preventing the Sentinel Programme ever getting going in order to stop the future mutant cull. It\u2019s a delicious plot device because it cleverly allows us to have both sets of X-Men in the same film \u2013 those from the original trilogy and the \u201860s set prequel \u2018First Class\u2019 from 2011.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Reaction:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nDays of Future Past plays delivers on all fronts \u2013 effectively being a sequel not only to \u2018First Class\u2019 but also the less loved \u2018Last Stand\u2019 from 2006. Thanks to the winning team of original X-Men Director Bryan \u2018Superman Returns\u2019 Singer and writers Jane \u2018Kick Ass\u2019 Goldman and Matthew \u2018Kingsman: The Secret Service\u2019 Vaughn this is the most super mutant fun to hit the screen in years!<\/p>\n<p>So gear up for some breath-taking action scenes \u2013 my pick of bunch being an audacious jail break aided by the very cool Quicksilver (Evan Peters) which will have super-fans grinning. But there is also a decent amount of brain power being thrown at this tale which works hard to tie up lose ends from across the X-Men franchise and set up the next in the series (be sure to stay until after the credits for a freaky sneak peek).<\/p>\n<p>Can Wolverine find and unite the young Xavier (James McAvoy) with Magneto (Michael Fassbender) \u2013 whilst trying to stop Jennifer Lawrence\u2019s Mystique from assassinating dangerous scientist Bolivar Trask (a superb \u201870s tach sporting Peter \u2018Game of Thrones\u2019 Dinklage)?<\/p>\n<p>The against the clock plot builds up a great deal of tension \u2013 both in the past as the mission hits all kinds of snags such as prototype Sentinels and Magneto\u2019s evil streak, and in the \u2018future\u2019 as the team, beaming Wolverine back, face being wiped out before he can complete the history revision.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Thinking material:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe X-Men are a fascinating fantasy \u2018what if\u2019 \u2013 one that engages both our desire to be \u2018super\u2019 and looks into the fear \/ mistrust \/ desire to destroy anything out of our normal frame of reference. This heavy-duty mixture of seeing those who we fear and mistrust fight to save us \u2018mere mortals\u2019 is a superb analogy for those with belief who seek the welfare of those who openly ridicule or condemn them.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Rating:<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #af8700;\">****<\/span>\u00a04 out of 5 stars<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Related Films<\/strong>:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1270798\/\" target=\"_blank\">X-Men: First Class<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120903\/\" target=\"_blank\">X-Men<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0290334\/\" target=\"_blank\">X-Men: United<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0376994\/\" target=\"_blank\">X-Men: The Last Stand<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0458525\/\" target=\"_blank\">X-Men Origins: Wolverine<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1430132\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Wolverine.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out our Movie study resource: \u2018Cinemania\u2019\u00a0<a title=\"Cinemania\" href=\"http:\/\/cvm.org.uk\/cinemania\" target=\"_blank\">here\u2026\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/reviews\/x-men-days-of-future-past-12a\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 897245;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png?w=750\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Matt Adcock Director:\u00a0Bryan Singer Cast:\u00a0Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Halley Berry, Nicholas Hoult, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Peter Dinklage, Omar Sy, Daniel Cudmore, Fan Bingbing, Adan Canto, Evan Peter Quote: &#8220;There is a new enemy out there: mutants. 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