Said group includes the likes of Iceman, Colossus, Sunspot, Blink, Bishop, Warpath and Shadowcat. In the very first few minutes we see the ragtag remnants of the X-Men fight off a determined group of Sentinels. Once he is sent back, Wolverine’s mission is to bring the young Professor and Magneto together to prevent Mystique from killing Trask and thus preventing the dark future that we see in the first few minutes of the movie.Īll in all, it is an excellent premise made better only by the fact that every actor involved delivered a magnificent performance and that Bryan Singer started the movie on a high, continued on a high, and ended on a high. In a desperate gamble, Professor X and Magneto aid Shadowcat in sending Wolverine back in time to the mid-1970s so as to prevent the true genesis of the Sentinel project as envisioned by its creator Bolivar Trask. And they’ve been so successful that only a very, very small handful of mutants are alive now. The premise of the movie is thus: In the not so distant future, the world governments have created the Sentinel project, which has resulted in the deployment of autonomous robots called Sentinels who have one purpose only, to kill all those who bear the mutant x-gene. And the biggest fact is that the movie attempts to close several continuity errors from the previous movies and kind of levels the playing field in the end. But all in all, this new movie proved to be far superior to any of the other X-Men movies, except perhaps for the first two, which really changed the way superhero movies worked in Hollywood. There were some significant changes of course, such as the fact that we didn’t have Kitty Pryde aka Shadowcat making the time travel trip, a role given over to Wolverine instead, and the fact that there were several other minor changes. The unrelated The Wolverine, released last year, only whetted my appetite for more.Īnd that sequel arrived a couple weeks back with X-Men: Days of Future Past, another comics adaptation, based on a crossover comic of the same name, or rather storyline. I certainly loved it and eagerly looked forward to the sequel. But Bryan Singer’s X-Men: First Class changed things completely and added some new blood into the franchise, in terms of both actors and characters, which was brilliant. In the period between the latter movie and X-Men: First Class, we’d had two other X-Men movies, X-Men: Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but both those movies proved to be extremely disappointing, especially the former which was pretty damn stupid all the way through. In 2011, we finally got an X-Men movie worthy of the name after the fairly good X-Men and X2: X-Men U nited.
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