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jaceyThe movie opens in 2023 with the last of the X-Men being hunted by hugely powerful 'sentinels' who are systematically wiping out mutants and any humans who help them. Professor X (magically alive again with no explanation as if X-Men Last Stand never happened) gets Kitty Pryde to send Wolverine's consciousness back into the body of his younger self in 1973. His mission: to prevent Raven/Mystique from assassinating Bolivar Trask (creator of the sentinels) and setting in motion the war between the mutants and hoimo sapiens. To achieve this, he has to persuade the much younger Charles Xavier to work with his old frenemy Erik Lehnsherr, Magneto. Meanwhile Trask (Peter Dinklage) has been experimenting on mutants and killing them and Mystique is out for blood.
It's fast-paced and engaging. Young Charles is as a low ebb and feeling very sorry for himself. Having been shot and paralysed at the end of X-Men First Class, he's now on his feet again, but the drug that keeps him walking supresses his mind powers and he has a hard choice to make.
At one point they engage the services of teenage Quicksilver (Evan Peters) to get to Erik and then for some reason known only to the scriptwriters they send him home again when almost everything that happens in the final showdown could have been avoided or mitigated if he'd been on-side. Duh!
It's a fun movie, however, and we get all the big guns, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and this time we have Jennifer Lawrence as Raven/Mystique. There are cameos from all of the X-Men regulars and a nice turn from Peter Dinklage as the scientist/businessman pushing the government to buy into the Sentinel project..
I enjoyed it - despite wondering how Mystique manages to look so good even though she is (in this version) the same age as Professor X and Magneto, and despite the X-Men timelines being irretrievably screwed. It does seem odd, however, when the Avengers and all their contributory individual character movies manage to sing from the same hymn sheet, how X-Men can't seem to decide what's canon and what isn't.
Though the time-travel reset button at the end does give many more possibilities for future movies.
It's fast-paced and engaging. Young Charles is as a low ebb and feeling very sorry for himself. Having been shot and paralysed at the end of X-Men First Class, he's now on his feet again, but the drug that keeps him walking supresses his mind powers and he has a hard choice to make.
At one point they engage the services of teenage Quicksilver (Evan Peters) to get to Erik and then for some reason known only to the scriptwriters they send him home again when almost everything that happens in the final showdown could have been avoided or mitigated if he'd been on-side. Duh!
It's a fun movie, however, and we get all the big guns, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and this time we have Jennifer Lawrence as Raven/Mystique. There are cameos from all of the X-Men regulars and a nice turn from Peter Dinklage as the scientist/businessman pushing the government to buy into the Sentinel project..
I enjoyed it - despite wondering how Mystique manages to look so good even though she is (in this version) the same age as Professor X and Magneto, and despite the X-Men timelines being irretrievably screwed. It does seem odd, however, when the Avengers and all their contributory individual character movies manage to sing from the same hymn sheet, how X-Men can't seem to decide what's canon and what isn't.
Though the time-travel reset button at the end does give many more possibilities for future movies.
