"X Men: Days of Future Past" PG 13
The follow up to 'The Wolverine (in Japan)" is directed by Bryan Singer, who for let Bret Ratner direct the third movie, agreeably the weakest link in the series, so he could go on an make Superman Returns the most darkly adoring stalk slasher movie ever. Yes, he knew that the script for The Lat Stand sucked, and pawned it off to the other guy, hoping he'd take the fall. Well this is according to legend.
In this remake he attempts to redeem his mistakes by putting Wolverine in the future where mutans and humans are being exterminated by crazed robot Sentinels and Cable is in it, (but miscast), and Professor X and Magento of the future have a way to send his consciousness back into time. They have this mutant that can do it, and she sends Wolverine's mind back to 1973 to try and convince the cast of X Men First Class to team up and stop the assassination of a short and frustrated Ron Burgundy clone who is trying to build those pesky Sentinels.
Thank goodness it is not about trying to change the Kennedy era somehow, but it is mentioned that Magneto was arrested for the infamous Kennedy assassination, but was framed. Wolverine and his new found mutant allies must bust him out to restore the timeline.
Singer plans all along to try and kiss butt to X Men fans and try and right The Last Stand. This review will got give away if he does or not.
Yes, the story is based on the comic books where the Phoenix saga leads into the Cable saga and Days of Future Past, and then Apocalypse, which will be next, but this time the adaptation works. The 1990s cartoon series covered this ground also, and they got Cable better, but that's an aside. They also did Phoenix better. Still the comics were probably better.
The movie is worth seeing in theaters and on Bluray later.
Review by Adam Browne
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