This is the seventh X-Men film, the fifth team movie, and we’re still dealing with the same “Eric says kill the humans before they kill us” vs. “Charles says give peace a chance” plot. The films can’t seem to get past the Civil Rights parable material at the expense of the copious other potential X-Men stories to be told onscreen. The moral debates are the same ones we’ve heard since 2000 and the story treads very little new ground. The film is full of characters asking questions to which they (and we) already know the answers.
had big-scale comic book action and style to spare, X-Men: The Last Stand had the distraction of the kinda-sorta Dark Phoenix saga, and the 60′s-set First Class gave the franchise its first unabashed super villain and a delicious spy caper. But this time there is little to distract us from the fact that we’ve seen this argument and this Magneto versus Professor X battle many times before. There are moments of note, including at least one turn with Magneto in the second act that genuinely surprised me, but we’ve seen this film and this specific drama several times before.
After the poppy and lively X-Men: First Class, this feels like yesterday’s comic book movie, and a strangely visually glum one (the 3D didn’t help) at that. As glorified fan service, X-Men: Days of Future Past mostly gets the job done. Without going into details, the epilogue nearly tips the film into the realm of pandering fan-fiction. It amounts to less a “must see” installment of an ongoing series so much as a kind of spring cleaning to set the stage for whatever might come next.
This is the seventh X-Men film, the fifth team movie, and we’re still dealing with the same “Eric says kill the humans before they kill us” vs. “Charles says give peace a chance” plot. The films can’t seem to get past the Civil Rights parable material at the expense of the copious other potential X-Men stories to be told onscreen. The moral debates are the same ones we’ve heard since 2000 and the story treads very little new ground. The film is full of characters asking questions to which they (and we) already know the answers.
had big-scale comic book action and style to spare, X-Men: The Last Stand had the distraction of the kinda-sorta Dark Phoenix saga, and the 60′s-set First Class gave the franchise its first unabashed super villain and a delicious spy caper. But this time there is little to distract us from the fact that we’ve seen this argument and this Magneto versus Professor X battle many times before. There are moments of note, including at least one turn with Magneto in the second act that genuinely surprised me, but we’ve seen this film and this specific drama several times before.
After the poppy and lively X-Men: First Class, this feels like yesterday’s comic book movie, and a strangely visually glum one (the 3D didn’t help) at that. As glorified fan service, X-Men: Days of Future Past mostly gets the job done. Without going into details, the epilogue nearly tips the film into the realm of pandering fan-fiction. It amounts to less a “must see” installment of an ongoing series so much as a kind of spring cleaning to set the stage for whatever might come next.
had big-scale comic book action and style to spare, X-Men: The Last Stand had the distraction of the kinda-sorta Dark Phoenix saga, and the 60′s-set First Class gave the franchise its first unabashed super villain and a delicious spy caper. But this time there is little to distract us from the fact that we’ve seen this argument and this Magneto versus Professor X battle many times before. There are moments of note, including at least one turn with Magneto in the second act that genuinely surprised me, but we’ve seen this film and this specific drama several times before.
After the poppy and lively X-Men: First Class, this feels like yesterday’s comic book movie, and a strangely visually glum one (the 3D didn’t help) at that. As glorified fan service, X-Men: Days of Future Past mostly gets the job done. Without going into details, the epilogue nearly tips the film into the realm of pandering fan-fiction. It amounts to less a “must see” installment of an ongoing series so much as a kind of spring cleaning to set the stage for whatever might come next.
This is the seventh X-Men film, the fifth team movie, and we’re still dealing with the same “Eric says kill the humans before they kill us” vs. “Charles says give peace a chance” plot. The films can’t seem to get past the Civil Rights parable material at the expense of the copious other potential X-Men stories to be told onscreen. The moral debates are the same ones we’ve heard since 2000 and the story treads very little new ground. The film is full of characters asking questions to which they (and we) already know the answers.
had big-scale comic book action and style to spare, X-Men: The Last Stand had the distraction of the kinda-sorta Dark Phoenix saga, and the 60′s-set First Class gave the franchise its first unabashed super villain and a delicious spy caper. But this time there is little to distract us from the fact that we’ve seen this argument and this Magneto versus Professor X battle many times before. There are moments of note, including at least one turn with Magneto in the second act that genuinely surprised me, but we’ve seen this film and this specific drama several times before.
After the poppy and lively X-Men: First Class, this feels like yesterday’s comic book movie, and a strangely visually glum one (the 3D didn’t help) at that. As glorified fan service, X-Men: Days of Future Past mostly gets the job done. Without going into details, the epilogue nearly tips the film into the realm of pandering fan-fiction. It amounts to less a “must see” installment of an ongoing series so much as a kind of spring cleaning to set the stage for whatever might come next.
I see you threw out that X-Force reference.....
Watch that go over people's heads...lol
The thought of it still makes me laugh. I'm wait to hold judgement though.
