“FINALLY!!!” FEAT: X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST! (A SPOILER FILLED REVIEW!)
Yeah, yeah I know I’m late! But dang it I have finally seen it an I’m ready to give my two cents about it! ( and no! That “Finally” is not a reference to the title of this blog.. I’ll let you know when we get there!)
Now where shall I begin?…. Hmm.. How about we start with a bit of a history on “Days of Future Past!” Written by Chris Claremont back in the mid 80’s. The story starts many years into the future. The Sentinels created by Boliver Trask have taken over the world and imprisiond the mutant and human race. Our last hope is the last remaining members of the X-Men. With the Sentinels hunting them down, they hatch a plan to send Kate Pride back in time (Telepathicly) in to her younger self, the X-Man ShadowCat! In doing this, she can prevent the assassination of Presidental Canadate Sentor Kelly. Stopping this future from ever happening.
Now, Fox of course took many liberties with this story. Instead of ShadowCat going back in time, our man Wolverine steps up to do the job. But instead of a Telepath sending his mind back. Some how, ShadowCat, played by Ellen Page once more, has developed the ability to accomplish this feat of mental time travel. (When the fuck does ShadowCat do that?!?)
Alright, I’m getting alittle ahead of myself. The film had me by the balls,at the very start. With the great Sir Patrick Stewart’s opening monoluge! And our look at the post-Apocolyptic future. (I think Bryan Singer has a thing for prison camps… Nah! That’s just wrong!) The film was action packed from the start. Like I had hoped, every character had their part to play and were given their appropriate story time. We start with our refugee/fugitive X-men. Blink, Warpath, Collosus, Sunspot, and Bishop.
Warpath sences the arrival of the Super “Nimrod-esque” Sentinels, and that’s when shit gets real. Whilst the team fends off the Sentinels, Shadowcat and Bishop, with a little help from a full Iced-up Ice-Man, get themselves to a safe room and Shadowcat works her newfound powers on Bishop. The Sentinels prove to be extremely enhanced. Morphing their bodies to counteract the powers of the mutants. In an incredibly ballsy move, Bryan Singer starts killing everybody off! Collosus’ powers are mimicked by the sentinel. And he gets his skull crushed with one punch, Sunspot gets his neck broken. Blink is impaled by the Sentinels arm blade in the middle of a portal jump. Booby gets his head literally melted off his neck and crushed under a Sentinels foot and Warpath gets blown to bits! Then! Just as the Sentinels get in to the room with Shadowcat and Bishop and suddenly turn in to the Destoryer from the Thor franchise, and open up its face to blast them with an energy beam. Everything vanishes! And the room is clean of everything! As if nothing ever happened there. And this is all in the first 15 or so minuets of the film!
We soon realize that Shadowcat had sent Bishop a few weeks in to the past, preventing them from ever being in that underground bunker and saving everybody’s life. So when the last remaining members of the original X-Men arrive. Storm, Wolverine, and Proffesser X with Magneto in on toe, we find that the whole crew is alive and well. Prof. X relises the major potentiol from Shadowcats ability and figures it’s time to implement their grand plan. Kitty is afraid to do it with a powerful mind such as Xavier’s and is afraid the strain of going back several decades could kill him. In comes Wolverine, miraculously brandishing adamantium claws in this film, (a fact of which is not explained at all!!… Go figure!) with his healing factor his brain could heal fast enough to take the strain of being mentally transported back in time. (Before I continue… SHADOWCAT! CAN NOT, I REPEAT, CAN NOT TRANSPORT ANYTHING TELEPATHICLLY!! NOR DOES SHE HAVE ANY FORM OF TELEPATHIC POWERS AT ALL!! SHE PHAZES THROUGH SHIT! THAT’S IT!! SHE PHAZES THROUGH WALLS AND STUFF!! And she’s a very intellegent woman. Great with computer hacking and kicking ass! I would have much rather they had someone with actual telepathic abilities to do the job. But! Since Shadowcat does play a key role in the original story, they had to figure a way to keep her a key player! I get Fox and Bryan on this, but you know what?… FUCK YOU Fox and Bryan Singer on that stupid ass logic!!… Phew!! Needed to get that off my chest. Now back to the review!) Before Wolverine sets off on his quantum leap, Xavier gives some info about what he needs to prevent. According to Xavier, Mystique, who he grew up with and cared for deeply for so many years (“Oh, yea! Did I mention I grew up with mystique way back in the day!? I didn’t tell you back in the very first movie? Sorry. Must have slipped my mind!” I think he meant to say that in the movie.) Mystique assassinates a one Mr. Boliver Trask (played nicely by Game of Thrones favorite Peter Dinklage)
In doing so, she is then captured and Trask Industries scientist continue his work in the Sentinel program, and use her DNA to create the ‘Nimrod-Esque’ Sentinels.
Ones that can morph their entire physical structure an adapt to any situation. With this information, Wolverine is ready to go. He then wakes up in his younger self in 1973, with a hot young lady on a water bed( of all things) not exactly sure where he is at the moment, a group of thugs burst in and threaten him for sleeping with the bosses daughter! A funny moment happens, when he tells the men that thier guns weren’t going to hurt him as much as his claws were goin to hurt them. He pops them out, revealing his bone claws and the look of confussion and disappointment on his face was hilarious to say the least! During this time, we catch up with Mystique( Jennifer Lawerance returning and delivering yet another great performance) Whom we find in Vietnam rescuing Havok and his little mutant battalion from being taken by a young William Stryker and put underground back home for testing for Trask Industries. When Havok tells her to come with them, she says “Her war isn’t over.”
Wolverine, finds the Xavier mansion looking like crap and Xavier himself looking like the same. But surprise, surprise! Xavier is standing on his own two feet! (Can’t wait to hear the explanation for this!) Turns out, Beast ol’ blue boy, concocted a serum that graphs on to Xavier’s spine giving him the streangth to walk. (Ok… I’m cool with that!) only on draw back… It nulls his telepathic powers. Leaving him powerless. As Beast explains this to Wolverine, we are treated to a slightly disturbing scene of Xavier shooting up the serum like a junkie. (Wasn’t too comfortable with that image.) Apperently after Raven left (at the end of First Class) Things just went down hill for Xavier and the school ever since. And the Vietnam war didn’t make it any easier. After some convincing, Wolverine gets Xavier to help him. But first they need to bust Magneto out of lock-up. “Where is Ol’ Bucket head anyway?!” Hundreds of feet below ground under the Pentagon. How could our little trio ever break into there?! No worries, Wolvie knows just the guy. Thus we are introduced to Pitro ‘Peter’ Maximoff! (Like most of you. When I first saw the first released picture of Quicksilver, my first thought was… WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!? THAT’S NOT QUICKSILVER!! FUCKING FOX IS GONNA FUCK THIS UP SO BAD!! But then I saw the movie and I aye my words) Quicksilver scenes were not only really cool but very fun! Only two things wrong with his involvement within the plot. 1. Quicksilver is faster then the speed of sound which is pretty fucking fast. But they portrayed him to be more of a “FLASH” type of speed (which is, Flash is faster then the speed of light. That’s faster then the speed of sound. Quicksilver doesn’t go so fast that time almost seems to stand still. That’s Flash’s department) but in the climax of the prison break, which is probably one of the most entertaining parts of the film, Quiksilver saves everyone’s ass by running around the room and taking out every guard in the room. 
And 2. He was only there for that one scene. I would personally would have liked it if Quicksilver was used more in the film then what he was. There was a nice nod to Quicksilvers parentage in a scene in an elevator. He had just busted Magneto out of his cell and in the ride up to meet up with Wolvie and Charles. He says “They say you can do stuff with metal! That’s funny. My mom knew a guy who could do that too!”
Now that the small band is put together we sadly say goodbye to Quicksilver. Charles and Eric hash out some if their greviencses with each other. We learn that ALOT of First Class members died in between the time that we last left them. Among those names he yells out is surprisingly, Banshee. (So we won’t be seeing go again, along with some others.) We learn that, when Mystique sneaks in to Trask Offices as Trask himself. And finds his hidden room with his secret files. Inside are autopsy reports featuring pictures of Azazel, and Angel. Seeing them further fuels Mystiques need to kill Trask. With Wolverines future knowledge of what’s going to happen. The group heads to Paris to stop Mystique from assassinating Trask. Who is there to try and sell off his Sentinels to Vietnam Generals, who were there for a peace treaty summit. During his presentation his Mutant Gene detector goes off. Revealing Mystique as one of the generals. The guys arrive in time to stop her. But shit goes south. Wolverine starts flipping out when he sees the young William Stryker and starts getting visions of the Weapon X program which sends his mind bouncing around in time. Causing complications in the future. Shadowcat struggles to keep him in one place. While he starts flinging his claws around and slashes her. In the past, Magneto decides to change history in his own way. By killing Mystique. She escapes by jumping out a window and Beast kicking his ass. Wolverine soon comes back to his sences, Mystique gets out of dodge and now Mutants are once more in the lime light and human kind is pissing their pants out of fear and confusion. With both Mystique and Magneto on the loose, Beast, Charles and wolverine get back to the mansion. The serum begins to wear off and Xavier’s legs start to go. But his powers are creeping back. Wolverine convinces him to hold on and not take the serum. That his powers were needed to help save the lives of everyone they cared for, past and present. He ops out of not taking the serum and hops back into his wheelchair, and dusts off old Cerebro. He struggles at first to find Mystique and blows out Cerebros motor. Feeling utterly hopeless and weak he literally gives up and says they sent back the wrong man. Wolverine agrees and tells him it was supposed to be him that was supposed to be sent back. But he could only do but so much. He told him to look into his mind and try to find the man who could help him find his way. At first Xavier sees all the turmoil Wolverine has been through (mainly scenes from the first three X-men films and Origins) Xavier is horrified by what he sees. Wolverine tells him don’t worry about what I’ve been through, look deeper. This brings us to the moment when Charles meets Charles. Past and future come face to face. It is the most, heart touching scene in the whole film. I seriously got tierie eyed during their exchange. It was quite literally the passing of the Xavier torch. A trully powerful scene, acted to the most extreme by such wonderful actors. I still get chills when I hear Patrick Stewart say “Charles, we need you to hope again.” (Awe man! Here come the water works!) After his little pep talk with himself Xavier’s ready to go.
Meanwhile! ( at the legion of doom!!… Sorry, always wanted to do that!) Magneto got his hands on some of Trasks plans for his Sentinels and hatches his own plan. With President Nixon ready to back his Sentinel Program and wanting to present them at a huge celebration on the White House lawn. Trask packs them up and ships them on a train to Washington. Magneto hops on board and using the rail line themselves he injects them with some much needed metal!
Xavier finds out that Mystique is headed for Washington and the boys fly off to head her off. Magneto and his love for national landmarks, out does his future feat of moving the Golden Gate Bridge (X-3) and absconds with a whole baseball stadium ( minus the field of course)and heads to the White House. Xavier and friends arrive at the celebration. Xavier Telepathicly searches for Mystique as Magneto is in route. He finds her disguised as a secret service man ready to put a bullet in Trask. Mentally freezing her he sends Wolverine and Beast for her. Once he was within range, Magneto activated the Sentinels as soon as they were unveiled and sent them on the attack. Through the frenzy Xavier loses his hold over Mystique and she rushes off after the rest of the secret service that’s scurrying away with Trask and The President. Magneto finally arrives and crashes the stadium down, fencing in the White House. ( Now during this time, Bryan Singer masterfully juggles two climatic battles at the same time.) In the future. An armada of Sentinel ships are flying in. Warpath spots them ten miles out and everybody kicks in to action. Blink and her portal powers once more prove amazingly effective as well as Storms manipulation of the winds. Bishop, after being charged up by Storms lightning, was kicking ass. But Magneto put the cherry on top, by using the BlackBird as a Nuclear Missle, Storm lit it up and the blast takes out the whole fleet of ships. Before they can bask in any victory, Storm notices Magneto, who has a piece of shrapnel in his side. Then shit really hits the fan…
Storm is the first to go. Then a whole ass load of Sentinels start popping up and it’s déjà vu all over again. The Xmen start kicking ass, but the Sentinels adapt, and start killing them. Bishop gets blown up, Sunspot gets impaled, Collosus get ripped in two. Blink teleports Magneto back inside with Xavier, but then gets impaled, not once, not twice, but three times! (Wolverine better hurry the fuck up!)
Wolverine and Beast take on a Sentinel that isn’t guarding the stadium perimeter. Xavier is trapped under a steel beam and Magneto rips out the metal underground bunker that President Nixon and his people were hiding in. Beast tells Logan he’s got the Sentinel and to go after Magneto. (Well, he doesn’t have his adamantium skeleton. So he should have no problem taking Magneto out.. Right?! Right?!?) Magneto sends a bunch of debrie flying at him. Then finally knocks him down from behind and starts snaking some metal bars in to his body. Lifting him up in an image very similar to a page in the now famous “Fatal Attractions” story line in which Magneto removes the adamantium from Wolverines body. (Look it up!) then sends him flying out of the stadium. (Well… there went any hope of Wolverine saving the day!) Wolverine lands in a freaking river and starts to drown.
Magneto ripped open the front of the Presidential Bunker like it was a can of sardines. He takes their guns from them (ala Xmen 1) Then focuses the Camras that surrounded the area on him. And makes a grand speech for the worlds mutants to no longer hide in the shadows in fear. “Nixon” had heard enough. Saying if you wanna make a statement, make it with him! (Meanwhile!) Beast is overpowered by the Sentinel and in desperation, injects a massive dose of his serum making him appear as human to the Sentinel. The Sentinel scans the area and spots Magneto and “Nixon” and Mutant comes up on its radar. Distracted by the charging Sentinel, Magneto turns away and “Nixon” pops a cap in his neck. Luckily missing any arteries. (Bet you guessed it was Mystique the whole time) She kicks him in the face and turns and aims for Trask. Xavier pleads with her one final time not to kill him, but ultimately leaves the decision up to her. In probably the most tension filled moment in the film. We flash back and forward as the Sentinels close in on Xavier, Magneto, Shadowcat, and Wolverine. They open their heads ready to fire. Mystique struggles with her desire for revenge. And in the kind of moment you think the writer will say, “Fuck you we’re making this some dark shit” Mystique drops the gun and the future vanishes! (I’ll even admit I made a fist pump “Fuck Yeah!”)
In that one final moment, everything we have come to know within the X-Men film universe, is NO MORE! The slate has been wiped clean! (Thank Heavens!)
Magneto floats his ass out of town. Mystique, goes off once more. And everyone wonders, Where’s Logan?… He’s fucking drowning you dirt bags! Fade to white and Wolverine wakes up in bed. Groggy as hell, he wanders out of his room and finds himself, wizard of oz style, back at Xavier’s School! We see Ol’ Beast(Kealsy Grammer) Kitty and Collosus are teaching a class, Rouge and Bobby are together. Storm is alive… And wait! Who’s that beautiful Red head standing in the door way? JEAN!?? Holy fuck she’s back! (At this point I’m clasping my hands praying for Cyclops to show up) and Bam! Wouldn’t you know it, CYCLOPS!! (Another Fist Pump! “Fuck yeah!”) The gang was all there. It felt so good seeing them back. (Hated the shades they gave Cyclops though…they looked fucking stupid!) Wolverine goes to Xavier’s office and is told he is late for a history class he has to teach. “I think I’m going to need a little help with that Proffesser. Can’t really remember anything past 1973!” (Great!! More fucking memory problems for Wolverine!) Xavier askes what’s the last thing he remembers… “Drowning” Flash back to Wolverine being fished out of the river by Police and Army Men. One says, “What should we do with him?” And there’s Major William Stryker! “I’ll take him from here.” As he turns away, his eyes turn Mystique yellow! (DA DA DAAAA!!!!)
And so we come to a close, on one hell of an extremely awesome X-Men Movie! “FINALLY!!!” (There it is..) FINALLY we get an all around great X-Men movie that. 1. Makes since, 2. FIXES! Key word FIXES! EVERYTHING wrong with the timeline, and Continuity! 3. I loved every single moment of this film, dispite all the little flubs and throw away things they put in it! And yeah, it is definitely my favorite X-Men film EVER! I love Wolverine, that movie should have been made instead of Origins! But! X-Men days of future past, is my Favorite Xmen out of all! I highly recommend you watch this film several times over!
Geez! This was a long ass blog! Sorry folks! Next one will be much shorter, promise! (Maybe)
So! Until next time folks… Peace out!
OH! And after the credits, WE SEE A YOUNG APOCOLYPSE!!! NERD-FUCKING-GASIM OVERLOAD!!! See ya!
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