Movie Review of X-men Days of Future Past

Initially I refused to watch any trailers for this movie. I love X-men so much that I wanted to enjoy the movie without knowing much of its plot. You know how ignorance is bliss? Yea, it applies here. The fun is not knowing what happens.

So it began with X-men in the future. The introduction of the Sentinels. Truth be told, the Sentinels weren’t as we had expected in some sense. They looked really, really powerful. I guess that’s necessary otherwise they wouldn’t be able to slay so much of the X-men.

The interesting part was how Wolverine was going to stop Mystique from being captured. While watching, I was commenting that despite his attempts to change the future, while it was changed, it was still on the very same route to revealing the existence of mutants.

The twist was when Mystique decided to morph into the President. That was just daebak! We  totally didn’t see that coming.

The visual effects and all were really good! I didn’t think very highly of Blink’s role in the movie until I watched it.  It was really nice, her portals and to think that a fellow Singaporean was behind some of these effects. Good job man!

On a side note I couldn't help explaining to my friend after the movie that Quicksilver also known as Max was none other than Magneto's son and his daughter, the little girl with Max and his mum, was later the Scarlet Witch. Oh and Quicksilver was just awesome dancing with the bullets. Too cool!


Overall I was really pleased by the movie. The plot wasn’t a simple, straight forward one and every time I saw an X-men get killed, I flinched.  I would rate it 4.5/5 but don’t take my word for it. Watch it!