We’ve reached the conclusion
of Hugh Jackm… I mean X-men month with the most recent X-men movie on DVD, it’s
X-men: Days of Future Past. And helping things along is the return of Bryan
Singer as director, his last X-men film was the best of the ones so far, being
X-men 2.
I must admit, like the other
X-men movies, I didn’t see this in the cinema, seeing a teaser for it as a
mid-credits scene in the Amazing Spider-man 2 (Mark Webb was under contract
with Fox at the time, but was allowed to work on this film in exchange for
that) kinda rubbed me the wrong way at the time, instead I waited until it was
out on DVD.
In terms of audience
reaction, it’s probably got the best up there with 91% on Rotten Tomatoes (at
time of writing matching Captain America: Civil war and up there with the Dark
Knight and the Avengers, 2 of my absolute favourite movies. Oh and also Iron
Man, which was good… I need to do a Marvel theme month, I mean actual Marvel,
not Fox or Sony Marvel.
Anyway, it’s also the most
successful of the X-men movies, earning $750m at the box office on a $200m
budget.
But let’s take a look at the
movie itself and see how it holds up. For the record I’m not using the extended
version because I don’t have that DVD.
