TheRetroCritic

We review X-Men: Days Of Future Past on episode 36 of podcast The Big Rewind. Is the future truly set?

I look back at a little film called X-Men: Days Of Future Past . You might have heard of it.

Aaaand just like that: we're back on track. And all it took was the making of two sub-par Wolverine spin-offs, two misguided X-Men films and the return of the franchise's original director as well as several familiar faces. X-Men: Days Of Future Past had two very clear missions: 1- Fix the franchise somehow, ridding it of all its plot-holes and inconsistencies. 2- Be fun and actually pretty good. Luckily, both missions are accomplished admirably despite all the time-travelling and plot tweaks getting in the way of pure Sentinels-on-mutants action. Besides, time-travel plots have rarely proven to be the best way to sort out plot holes, quite the opposite in fact as going back in time only raises more questions and brand new plot holes. That said, by the first 5 minutes, none of that will matter as you should be well and truly hooked after sitting through a thrilling look at the sinister neon-lit future awaiting us and the X-Men should Wolvie not go back in time to