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X-Men The ultimate ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The characters from the original X-Men film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from X-Men: First Class in an epic battle that must change the past - to save our future. The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.

Initial release: May 10, 2014 (New York City)
Director: Bryan Singer
Running time: 134 minutes
Prequel: X-Men: The Last Stand
Sequel: X-Men: Apocalypse
Starring   

    Hugh Jackman
    James McAvoy
    Michael Fassbende
Music by     John Ottman
Budget     $200 million

Box office     $726,262,640

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 Plot

In the future, robots known as Sentinels are exterminating all mutants and any humans who dare to help them or harbor mutant genes. A band of mutants evade the Sentinels with the help of Kitty Pryde, who can project a person's consciousness into the past to deliver warnings. Pryde's group convenes with Storm, Wolverine, Professor Xavier, and Magneto in China. Pryde sends Wolverine's consciousness to 1973 to prevent Mystique from assassinating Bolivar Trask, the creator of the Sentinels. Following the assassination, Mystique was captured and her DNA was used by Trask's company to create Sentinels, whose ability to adapt to any mutant power makes them almost invincible. Xavier and Magneto advise Wolverine to find both of their younger selves for help.

Wolverine awakens in 1973. At the X-Mansion, he encounters Xavier and Beast. Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters has closed after most of the teachers and students were drafted for the Vietnam War. Xavier, now a broken man, takes a serum which allows him to walk and suppresses his telepathy. Wolverine explains his mission and persuades Xavier to help free Magneto from a prison cell beneath the Pentagon, where he is being held for allegedly assassinating President John F. Kennedy. They rescue Magneto with the help of Peter Maximoff, a mutant with superhuman speed.

In Washington D.C., Trask unsuccessfully lobbies Congress to gain support for his Sentinel program. Meanwhile, in Saigon, Mystique prevents William Stryker from appropriating a group of mutant G.I.s for Trask's research. Mystique investigates Trask's office and discovers he has been capturing mutants to use in experiments. Xavier, Magneto, Beast, and Wolverine fly to Paris to intercept Mystique. In Paris, Mystique impersonates a Vietnamese general to infiltrate the Paris Peace Accords with Trask, who is trying to sell his Sentinel technology to communist nations. Xavier, Magneto, Beast, and Wolverine arrive as Mystique is about to kill Trask. Magneto tries to kill Mystique to ensure her DNA cannot be used for the Sentinels, but she flees from a window. The fight spills onto the street in view of the public, allowing Magneto and Mystique to escape.

Critical response

The film has received "nearly unanimous positive reviews", according to Los Angeles Times.Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 92% approval rating from critics, with an average score of 7.6/10, based on 228 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "X-Men: Days of Future Past combines the best elements of the series to produce a satisfyingly fast-paced outing that ranks among the franchise's finest installments."On Metacritic, the film has a score of 74 based on 43 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Sean O'Connell of Cinema Blend gave the film four and a half stars out of five and said that the film was "the greatest, most complete and staggeringly entertaining [X-Men film] to date."Empire Magazine gave it a four out of five star review and said it was "The best X-Men film since the second one". Mike Avila, the CEO of AviLand Productions felt the film was "superb", while film critic Kevin McCarthy praised the actors' performances, as well as the action and emotion.[168] Steve Rose of The Guardian rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, summarizing that "Non-devotees might struggle, but director Bryan Singer whips up the action towards a symphonic climax." David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter said, "While it's more dramatically diffuse than the reboot and lacks a definitive villain, the new film is shot through with a stirring reverence for the Marvel Comics characters and their universe." Justin Chang of Variety said, "If the characters’ quandaries at times feel overly circumscribed, they’re also advanced with a bracing emotional directness, devoid of either cynicism or sentimentalism, that touches genuine chords of feeling over the course of the film’s fleet 130-minute running time."
In contrast, Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph rated the film 2 out of 5 stars and called the plot "a curate's egg, thoroughly scrambled" and concluded, "The film squanders both of its casts, reeling from one fumbled set-piece to the next. It seems to have been constructed in a stupor, and you watch in a daze of future past." Simon Abrams, writing for the website of late film critic Roger Ebert gave the film 2.5 stars out of 4, calling it a "visually driven and paint-by-numbers-plot" and was critical of the undeveloped subplots that built up as the film's pacing left little time to develop each element of the past story.