“Is the future truly set?”

X-Men: Days of Future Past, as you can tell from the trailers and title, deals with time travel. Wolverine goes back in time in order to stop mankind from creating the Sentinels. But these Sentinels had Mystique’s DNA, adapting their “skin” to fight mutant powers. This way, there was a mutant genocide and, as expected, a lot of humans died on the process as well. So to stop that, present day X-Men send Wolverine decades ago, when Dr. Bolivar Trask (creator of the Sentinels project) gets killed by Mystique, leading mankind on a mutant-fueled rage and going all-in with the Sentinels. Logan’s objective is stop Mystique.

As you can also tell from the trailers and posters, this movie had a massive cast, putting together actors from First Class (Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult) and the older X-Men movies (Halle Berry, Ellen Page, Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin). And, of course, Days of Future Past also has Peter Dinklage playing Bolivar Trask.

The high caliber celebrity list above isn’t necessarily the best idea. The movie has a hard time focusing and developing single story lines. Jackman, Dinklage and Lawrence are the most important ones on the plot and the ones with most screen time, which makes sense. Then we have McAvoy, Fassbender and Hoult. And then rest of the older X-Men. Storm barely had any lines. One of my favourite actresses from the first movies is also back but I won’t spoil it.

A mutant that completely steals the show is Quicksilver, played by Evan Peters. I’m honestly giving half a start more as my review rating because of him.

Days of Future Past seemed more hopeful and lighter than First Class, which is why I still prefer the latter. You can’t just beat that early McAvoy & Fassbender chemistry. They are great in here as well and their relationship deepens but… everything’s changed. That’s life.

Mutant life. Good, action-packed and fun mutant life.