X-Men: Days of Future Past (DVD REVIEW)
X-Men:
Days of Future Past
DVD Review by Kam Williams
7th X-Men Episode Finds Wolverine Traveling
Back in Time for the Sake of the Future
X-Men: Days of Future Past represents the 7th episode in the storied
mutant series, and is the 3rd directed by Bryan Singer who also
helmed X-Men 1 and 2. This installment is loosely based on the 1981 Marvel
Comics (issues #141-142) of the same name, a convoluted tale in which one of
the superheroes is sent back in time to prevent an impending disaster
threatening the present.
The story unfolds in a
dystopian future where we find a race of robots called Sentinels slaying
mutants and subjugating humanity. X-Men founder/leader/brain of the operation
Dr. Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) summons his surviving protégés to a
meeting in a monastery in China
to hatch a plan to preserve the planet.
With the help of “phasing”
Shadowcat’s (Ellen Page) quantum tunneling ability, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman)
slips through a portal to a parallel universe in 1973. His mission there is to
stop fellow mutant Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) from murdering Trask (Peter
Dinklage), the diabolical genius who invented the Sentinels.
Why would you want a vanquished villain
to be reincarnated? Don’t ask. After all, that’s one of the easier leaps of
faith this flick’s farfetched plot expects you to make. If you need a plausible
plot, then you might be too close-minded for this imaginative sci-fi.
Try on for size the novel notion that
President Kennedy was killed “because he was one of us.” OK, let’s see, so JFK
was assassinated for being a mutant? Why not? Just a couple of years ago we
learned from another movie that Abraham Lincoln was a vampire slayer.
Revisionist history? Or little known fact? You be the judge. What’s next,
Dwight Eisenhower as an alien?
But I digress. Fortunately, X-Men 7
audience members will be very richly rewarded for taking flights of fancy,
provided they succeed in suspending their disbelief. Don’t try to make sense,
for instance, about how you go back in time, reverse a long-deceased person’s
demise, and not simultaneously unravel myriad aspects of reality which have
already subsequently transpired.
Instead, simply sit back and enjoy a
sophisticated period piece unfolding against a nostalgic backdrop littered with
staples of the Seventies ranging from lava lamps to waterbeds. This adventure
even brings out of mothballs a number of favorite characters we haven’t seen in
awhile, such as Storm (Halle
Berry), Rogue (Anna Paquin),
Cyclops (James Marsden), Iceman (Shawn Ashmore) and Colossus (Daniel Cudmore).
Don’t forget to watch all of the closing
credits for a decent-length teaser about X-Men 8: Apocalypse, coming to theaters
in May of 2016. X-Men, a fabled franchise that like a fine wine, just keeps
improving with age.
Excellent (4 stars)
Rated
PG-13 for nudity, profanity, suggestive material and intense violence
In
English, French and Vietnamese with subtitles
Running
time: 131 minutes
Distributor:
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Blu-ray/DVD
Combo Pack Extras: Deleted scenes;
Kitchen Sequence; gag reelDouble Take: Xavier & Magneto; X-Men: Reunited; Classification: M; Sentinels: For a Secure Future; Gallery: Trask Industries; theatrical trailers; and Second Screen App.
To
see a trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsjtg7m1MMM
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order a copy of the X Men: Days of Future Past Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack, visit:
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