I think this is the first X-men that I don't genuinely care for- I don't hate it by any stretch of the term nor is it in any way a bad movie. The visuals are freaking amazing and very fun to look at, the action seems are the best they have ever been, there's a lot of good emotional moments, Quicksilver was a lot of fun and Blink's power set was really cool.
The problems with this movie are the story, characters and overall structure of the movie. In this movie sentinels have taken over, although how they are being run be it the giant sentinel brain in the future or some group of humans the film kind of side-steps over. In order to rewrite the future they send Wolverine to the past with Kitty Pryde's time travel powers, which the film does not really give a reason about where she got those powers but that over didn't bother me as much as who or what the hell was running the sentinels. What's really funny is that many people assume and the trailer's sell is that yet again the overused Wolverine will be the main protagonist. Well... not exactly.
You see in the future they explain that the reason everything happened is that Mystique assassinated Bolivar Trask, and they used her DNA when they captured her to use for the sentinel project fifty years later. So really this is a Mystique movie and in movie if you did the math Mystique is in the more than Wolverine as well as does more than Wolverine.
Wolverine as Hugh Jackman is still good in the role but really doesn't due anything, heck I think he has only two fight scenes in the movie. I have never been a fan of Mystique and I fail to see why Rebecca Romane is the better Mystique as she barely does anything in the original X-men movies. Jennifer Lawrence is not that much fun as Mystique, heck throughout the movie she loves pretty freaking dead which is weird because I think she has the best motivation out of everyone.
Speaking of that my least favorite character in this movie has to be Professor Xavier. Many people complain about Professor X not having a personality outside of the wise mentor but here he's really whining and just kind of unlikeable. The reason for the depression is because of the fact due to the Vietnam war many of the students and teachers got drafted so he gave up... wow that is stupid. The reason for the fact he can walk (as well as the fact Beast stays human for a majority of the movie) is because of the fact Beast managed to create a serum to repress his beast powers and allow Xavier to walk albeit in exchange for suppressing his powers. How they could do this and not in the future the film does not bother to explain.
Many of the characters really have nothing to do or are completely rushed. In the future I loved the new future X-men because a lot of them looked visually interesting but beyond them nothing else to them and most of them don't even show up at the end. I wanted to get to know them but the film wouldn't let me. Halle Berry has nothing to do and from what I heard was almost cut completely from the movie and you can tell. From my own theories when watching interviews and from a one of the few scenes they were In I think Storm was suppose to be one of the mutants, Bishops, mother. Ian Mckellen gets this really cool action scene but doesn't really talk except for a few lines of exposition. Ellen Page is ok and probably does the most by sending Wolverine into the past. Iceman really has nothing to offer and we only see him ice man up for a couple of scenes albeit it was really cool. Patrick Stewart does good with what he is given.
Magneto was ok but I found a lot of his actions sort of schizophrenic and at one point he uses his powers to take control of the sentinels even though the thing that would make sense would be to destroy them. Peter Dinklage as Bolivar Trask is ok and does good with what he is give but isn't as interesting as Sebastian Shaw in X-men first class. Havok serves no purpose other than for one scene as does Toad. Quicksilver was the best part as he was funny, light hearted and had some of the best scenes in the movie. He also had the best action scene which plays to a good music track. His costume doesn't even look that bad in motion. They also do handwave that he is Magneto's son which I have a feeling they might reveal in X-men apocalypse.
What happened to the first-class cast was that all of them Azaezal, Banshee, Angel and Emma all died horrifically which is why Mystique was the way she was in the film.
Overall I think the main problem with X-men days of future past was the fact that you can feel the fact that only reason it was made was to dive into the Avengers money. Which is also the reason Amazing Spider-man 2 suffered. It is a really rushed product that was basically slaughtered in editing, which is weird because this is a two hour and eleven minute movie but I feel actually could have benefited to going a full Lord of the things style three hours. I felt as if their should have been a direct first class sequel before this movie so that way a lot of it wouldn't feel rushed or too lazily written.
By the way this is also the most graphic X-men movie I have ever seen so you might not want to bring a small child to this. I mean literally use see a pile of dead human bodies in the beginning of this and I am pretty sure any child thirteen and under will be scared by this movie.
Overall I give this movie a 5/10, great actions, great visuals, great quicksilver but is not great in story, characters or structure.
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