X-Men: Days of Future Past is a superhero movie distributed by 20th Century Fox based on Marvel’s mutant team and is the sequel to X-Men: First Class. It opens up decades in the future with Sentinels, giant robots created to hunt mutants but eventually enslaved all of humanity, on the trail of a group of X-Men who are preparing to fight. The group consists of Kitty Pryde, Iceman, Colossus, Sunspot, Bishop, Blink, and Warpath, and they’re not facing the standard Sentinel but a much more advanced version that is capable of counteracting almost all their abilities. In an amazing display of mutant abilities the group tries their best to hold off the Sentinels while protecting Kitty and Bishop who are avoiding all combat while trying to make a run for it. The X-Men are killed one by one until it’s just Kitty and Bishop left but before the Sentinels are able to deliver their final blow, Kitty completes the process of sending Bishop’s consciousness back in time resulting in everyone disappearing and altering the recent events so the X-Men who were just killed are still alive. Apparently they’ve been using this tactic for some time, sending Bishop’s consciousness back a little bit in time so he could warn them of an imminent attack, which is then prevented by the team moving. They rendezvous with Professor X, Magneto, Wolverine and Storm, and the bold idea is presented to Kitty to send a consciousness decades back in time, farther than she’s ever done, and it would be to prevent the rise of the unstoppable Sentinels by warning them in the past. However there are 2 major obstacles: it would be near impossible for any mind to endure such a journey without being damaged, and also they would be unable to move while that consciousness was influencing events in the past, which would leave them vulnerable to the Sentinels finding them. So Wolverine volunteers as his healing factor can counteract any damage the process would cause to his brain, and the remaining X-Men are prepared to make one final stand defending Kitty for when the Sentinels would eventually find them. Even if Wolverine can convince Professor X and Magneto in the past that he’s truthful about the bleak future, can he convince them to put aside their differences long enough to stop the crucial series of events directly connected to the rise of the Sentinels?

X-Men: Days of Future Past is easily the best X-Men movie to date from its almost nonstop action to its solid and extremely engrossing story and enjoyable characterizations. It’s another example for a superhero movie that surpasses the cliché and erroneous belief that it can’t have a cohesive and relevant story where the motivations are real, and still be highly entertaining. In terms of pure entertainment it ranks among the best and I would put it right up there with Winter Soldier but the continuity issues, which aren’t the fault of this movie, are the only reasons I wouldn’t give this a higher score because it did use scenes from those movies without addressing the questions that raises. However I’m ultimately glad it did because I couldn’t be happier about the future of the X-Men franchise and what the next installment will address as I am after watching X-Men: Days of Future Past. I highly recommend this movie, and it’s even worthy of multiple viewings.