The X-men are back at it this time bringing you the recycled plots of Men in Black 3 and Back to the Future. A 1973 Mystique could kill rising tech superstar Bolivar Trask who has created an army of mutant killing robots they have waged war on mutants and humans alike 50 years in the future. It is up to Logan to meet up with a young Charles Xavier and a young Erik Lenscherr to bring an end to the set now present.
But it doesn't come very easy. With the shadow of the Vietnam War still hovering over, Charles has given up on his gifted school for youngsters. He is taking a serum which then takes away his telepathy powers and gives him his legs back. The young Hank McCoy accompanies them. He, too, is using his serum to suppress his beast mode. Eric is in prison for killing President Kennedy though he claims that he was trying to save him because Kennedy was a mutant.
With Mystique everywhere transforming into everyone, she was pretty hard to track to eventually Charles was able to get into her mind and convinced her not to kill Trask and not to make mutants the enemy. Logan was drowning in the river but he wakes up it back in his bed at Professor X's School.
It's like as if the first three movies never happened. I mean Jean Grey is alive, Scott Summers, AKA Cyclops, is alive. Storm is alive as we saw in the final battle she dies. Even Rogue is back with Bobby, AKA Iceman. She left after the events of The Last Stand. I laughed at the Quicksilver sequence where he changed everything is awesome! I mean that has to be the best part of the whole movie. Other than that, it's a complete f*cking waste of time.
It's like the last fourteen years no longer matter. This franchise kicked off with a rocking start, and it was downhill from there. And their only solution is to go back and erase it all. Let's backtrack to see if any of it makes sense.
In the first X-Men, Magneto was out and about until he is caught in the third act. There was no mention of Magneto killing Kennedy at all. All Magneto wants is to have mutants rule the world. Why is killing a mutant president part of the plan?
In First Class, we see Mystique go with Magneto because she wanted to. In the first trilogy, she was part of Magneto's plan until her mutant gene was eliminated. In this movie, she seems to be on her own agenda which would cause the apocalypse.
Hank was working on the serum in First Class, which amplified his beastly appearance. Then he had the audacity to finish the serum after Mystique tells him to be proud of his mutation. And side note, I saw this movie before I saw First Class. I was led to believe that Professor X's paralysis is the side effect to his telepathy. He was shot in the back; it has nothing to do with his powers.
I will give it to this movie to have the balls to rather than reboot the entire franchise, they create an alternate timeline where Logan will have to go back and fix it. But there again. In First Class, Logan told Charles and Erik where to take it in 1962. Charles should have remembered Logan when the angry Canadian is now showing up at his door asking for help.
It tried. This movie tried. A for effort.
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But it doesn't come very easy. With the shadow of the Vietnam War still hovering over, Charles has given up on his gifted school for youngsters. He is taking a serum which then takes away his telepathy powers and gives him his legs back. The young Hank McCoy accompanies them. He, too, is using his serum to suppress his beast mode. Eric is in prison for killing President Kennedy though he claims that he was trying to save him because Kennedy was a mutant.
With Mystique everywhere transforming into everyone, she was pretty hard to track to eventually Charles was able to get into her mind and convinced her not to kill Trask and not to make mutants the enemy. Logan was drowning in the river but he wakes up it back in his bed at Professor X's School.
It's like as if the first three movies never happened. I mean Jean Grey is alive, Scott Summers, AKA Cyclops, is alive. Storm is alive as we saw in the final battle she dies. Even Rogue is back with Bobby, AKA Iceman. She left after the events of The Last Stand. I laughed at the Quicksilver sequence where he changed everything is awesome! I mean that has to be the best part of the whole movie. Other than that, it's a complete f*cking waste of time.
It's like the last fourteen years no longer matter. This franchise kicked off with a rocking start, and it was downhill from there. And their only solution is to go back and erase it all. Let's backtrack to see if any of it makes sense.
In the first X-Men, Magneto was out and about until he is caught in the third act. There was no mention of Magneto killing Kennedy at all. All Magneto wants is to have mutants rule the world. Why is killing a mutant president part of the plan?
In First Class, we see Mystique go with Magneto because she wanted to. In the first trilogy, she was part of Magneto's plan until her mutant gene was eliminated. In this movie, she seems to be on her own agenda which would cause the apocalypse.
Hank was working on the serum in First Class, which amplified his beastly appearance. Then he had the audacity to finish the serum after Mystique tells him to be proud of his mutation. And side note, I saw this movie before I saw First Class. I was led to believe that Professor X's paralysis is the side effect to his telepathy. He was shot in the back; it has nothing to do with his powers.
I will give it to this movie to have the balls to rather than reboot the entire franchise, they create an alternate timeline where Logan will have to go back and fix it. But there again. In First Class, Logan told Charles and Erik where to take it in 1962. Charles should have remembered Logan when the angry Canadian is now showing up at his door asking for help.
It tried. This movie tried. A for effort.
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Released On: May 23, 2014
Rating: PG-13
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Peter Dinklage
Director: Bryan Singer
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90% Certified Fresh
IMDb Score: 8.0/10
Awards
Academy Awards
- Best Visual Effects - Nominated
Saturn Awards
- Best Comic-to-Film Motion Picture - Nominated
- Best Director Bryan Singer - Nominated
- Best Editing John Ottman - Nominated
- Best Costume Louise Mingenbach - Nominated
- Best Make-up Adrien Morot & Norma Hill-Patton - Nominated
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