X-Men: Days of Future Past

If you haven't had the opportunity to jump on the Marvel band wagon do so now.  I mean that seriously.  They are raking in the dough with all of their movies.  This is the era of the comic books and even though some of DC's stuff is good, Marvel has the market cornered completely.  This new installation of X-Men brings back a lot of the old characters we saw have a not so great demise in one of the not so great previous installations.  This is a good thing actually.  The new movie has done pretty much what has happened to the Star Trek franchise and reset the timeline.  Thank GOODNESS.  With the new way of super hero movies coming out (refer to all my past hero movie reviews) being darker and more edgier, I think the producers and directors have finally realized that more is not always better. 

This is a Marvel Super Hero movie.  Though there are going to be a huge list of "Hollywood Sins", it was fairly well done.  We get to see a lot of the old characters return.  They return not only as their old incantations but as the younger and more attractive models as well.  It is also nice to see some new faces.  Amazingly enough I was surprised at how much I liked Quicksilver.  Before the movie even came out there was a lot of backlash over his character but after watching the movie he quickly became one of my favorite characters.  I actually found myself wanting to see more of what he could do.  Peter Dinklage also has a nice role in the movie too.  For all of you GOT fans it was interesting to see him in another role.

The movie itself has a much darker tone than some of its predecessors.  Again going back to what is actually popular and what more people want to see - hyper-realism.  It is an action film as well, with lots of unbelievable explosions and it even has giant robots.  There is death in the movie but not a lot of blood and there are a few curse words.  The movie had to maintain its PG-13 rating.  There is a pretty good life struggle story that tries to develop some of the characters and make them seem more humanistic and to help us understand their motives and emotions.

I highly reccomend this to all the X-Men fans out there.  The series has returned in a great way and is now paving roads to hopefully a new outlook.  Who knows for sure though?  I would avoid this with smaller children.  The death and explosions can be a little much.  They might also not get a lot of the darker tones.  They will laugh at some of the lighter bits but those are very few indeed.  If you are looking for a romantic comedy or even a more thought provoking outlook on life then this isn't your cup of tea.  This movie is about Mutants and the super powers geeks like me wish we had.