X-Men Days of Future Past: Review, More Storm!

I just saw X-men Days of Future Past and I am still raw with sensory overload. You guys know how long I have been eagerly awaiting this film!

In X-men Days of Future Past we see "old school meets new school" as X-men teams from past and future work to prevent a war between humans and mutants. What is making this war all the more bleak is the presence of a robotic army of Sentinels. Sentinels were originally created to hunt down mutants but with all creations of mass distruction that is not enough, so humans are also eventually targeted.

I went to the first showing of X-men and let's just say I have been pretty spoiled seeing movies during the day. Who knew a first showing would be so crowded! I do not like people I don't know sitting right next to me; folks talking behind me; people who do not eat anything during the film are suspect and who gets up during the film and never returns except for a domestic terrorist, rant over!

Other folks will talk about the storyline and stuff but you guys know how I rate all of the X-men films and that is by how much screen time my favorite weather diva Storm gets in the film! Again not enough screen time but when she is on, she is fierce! Hall Berry returns (with a new wig) to what is becoming an iconic comic book role as the weather goddess Storm!

I am still waiting on when they will really let Storm kick some elemental special effects butt in one of these films. I saw more elemental havoc in the Into the Storm movie trailer!

I have read the comic book series of X-men Days of Future Past and was aware of the theory of multiple timelines for the future. But being a staunch and loyal Storm fan I was not prepared for seeing her get taken out on the big screen. I doubled over in my seat! I think the guy sitting next to me thought I was having a stroke....lol.

If I have to give some props to a few new comers in the series then standout action scenes will go to the fight scene in the past as Quicksilver saves the day in an incrediblly, slow motioned, ballet inspired, comedic rescue. Who else added some incredible visual, special effects, flavor to the fight scenes in the future was the temporal displacing vixen, Blink!

Again other folks will cover different aspects of the film but let me just say this film gives you the most superhero eyecandy of any other series.

Yes it's time for an X-Men hunk role call!

First of all we get to see Hugh Jackman reprise his roll as the beefy and surly Wolverine.

I think somebody is on the juice...lol.

There is a shot of Wolverine in all his naked buffness that is worth the ticket price at the beginning. We have Colossus returning along with Iceman but we have a few more new hunks to add to the X-men Hunk calendar. Enter Warpath, Sunspot and Bishop which gives you a We Are the World of diersity version of New Mutant sexiness!

X-Ment Days of Future Past coninues to explore the historical and complicated relationship of Professor X and Magneto. Just kiss each other and get on with it already guys!

The film also gives much more screen time to the character of Mysique played by Jennifer Lawrence. I understand that they love her character so much that rumor has it she might be getting her own film!

What?

Mystique is not even an X-man!

If one more person gets a film before Storm I am going to cut someday deep with a rusty blade...lol.

You do get to enjoy a kind of class reunion at the end of X-men Days of Future Past, where many of the old gang show up again including Cyclops, Rogue and even Jean Grey! God help us if I have to suffer through her chacter again. One of the only redeeming factors of X-Men Last Stand was that Jean Grey bites it at the end....lol.

Do not get me wrong I love Phoenix but Jean Grey gets on my nerves!

You can always tell the comic book film amateaurs who leave before the credits roll which always reveal some new film sneak peaks! Okay we have two references to Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, both in X-men and the last Captain America film. I think something very cool is brewing!