![]() ![]() Once he decides to step down as the iconic superhero, I would be tempted to retire Wolverine’s character or shut down the franchise altogether. Hugh Jackman is the most impressive though, still oozing attitude, heroics and a sharp, funny edge as Wolverine. The same can be said for Jennifer Lawrence who finds herself at the centre of the key events as Mystique. ![]() ![]() James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender slip into their respective roles as Professor X and Magneto naturally. It’s with the established mutants that most of the heavy-lifting is done though. The characters slip naturally back into their established roles His ability is to run ridiculously fast but when you see things from his perspective, coupled with a brilliant choice of music, the power is demonstrated as anything but average and unoriginal. The newest and most original use of a pretty average power is Quicksilver. The “future mutants” all have their positives and offer exciting new powers, particularly Blink who can open portal for the other mutants to utilise in interesting and creative ways. The use of many new and old mutants is done brilliantly too. The 70s setting is utilised well, from the first moment that Wolverine opens his eyes in his younger self’s body. It’s a minor issue in a film full of so many strengths though. The new mutants, particularly Blink, are a great addition and offer very cool powers The final act offers very little that is new and even has shades of First Class rather than anything too unique in itself. From a spectacular opening, a brilliant jailbreak and a public showdown, the first flaw with DoFP is that it’s finale never really lives up to how high the standards are set in the first two-thirds of the movie. In fact, it’s the action sequences that are one of the biggest strengths of DoFP. Being introduced and re-acquainted with new and familiar mutants as they battle Sentinels, not only shows how high the stakes and challenges are for the “future” characters but also presents the main thrust of the movie and the key element to how everything works. Those ramifications are demonstrated brilliantly in one of the best openings of any summer blockbuster in a long time. He is key to the whole premise of the movie, being sent back in time to stop an assassination that will have catastrophic ramifications for the mutants in the future. It’s with him that the movie’s story focuses. Jackman’s Wolverine is back and central to the movie By bringing the “original” cast and the “new” cast together in the same movie, it established all seven X-Men movies as one solid franchise, sharing just one key character through every one, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. Instead they went with a bold, much better move on the part of the studio and creators behind the series. Even after First Class, recasting key members for a very good prequel, they could have continued with the new cast and forgotten any links to the original movies at all, rebooting the series without actually branding it as so. When the third movie in the original trilogy, The Last Stand, managed to put an end to a flourishing franchise by killing off half the key cast, they could have very easily rebooted the franchise entirely. Days of Future Past was a bold move by Fox and the people behind the X-Men franchise.
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