Man oh man! If I can describe this movie in one word: Whiplash – a word used by Quicksilver that I’m going to borrow here. If you have not yet watched the movie and going to watch it, you need to come in with an open mind and know that everything that you have watched of the X-Men movie franchise for the many past years will be wiped out. Zilch. Basically, if you come in to the theatre with amnesia of what had happened in the past movies, with the exception X-Men: First Class, that’d be brilliant! I mean, I’m eating chocolate rolls while writing this review because my brain just turned into a mush after watching this latest movie of my favourite bunch of mutants.

X-Men: Days of Future Past began in the future when the world was invaded by machines called Sentinels that destroyed both humans and mutants. In that future, there were not many mutants left. Professor X and Magneto were working together to save what’s left of their kind but the hopes were starting to deplete until Professor X had an idea of going back to the past to stop what happened in their current time – stopping Dr. Bolivar Trask from creating the Sentinels. However, Kitty, who somehow had the power to bring the consciousness of another person to their body in the past, was resistant to the idea because it could destroy the person she brought back in time. Only one person couldn’t get hurt and that person was Wolverine. As such, Wolverine was brought back to the ’70s to find the younger Professor X and Magneto to stop Mystique from killing Trask, getting captured and experimented on, which led to the Sentinels being so powerful in 50 years’ time, by using Mystique’s DNA to create them.

This movie is better than all the other X-Men movies combined and that might just be because we see both worlds – the past and the future and we saw all the characters we love but I cannot spoil anything in this review. But yes, all the people you love. If you loved X-Men: First Class, you get to see James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender reprising their roles as the younger Charles and Erik and if you love the original ones, you get to see Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Sir Ian McKellan, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore and Halle Berry (there are more but like I said, I cannot spoil anything) back as our beloved mutants.

But more than that, each of the acting is so top-notch in this one. James McAvoy was so good being the broken Charles Xavier. He was so good, I wanted to hug him. And what about the bromance with Erik Lehnsherr? There was one scene that was so good, funny and bromantic. It is one of my favourite scenes in the movie and I have so many.

And what about the effects? It is all spot-on. And just so you know, the effects have a little bit of a Singaporean touch. There was a long list of visual effects people, understandably, for this movie and one of them is a Singaporean, who worked on Blink’s portals, Iceman’s ice spray and fire from Sunspot. So, if there is one person for that few, can you imagine how many people worked on other effects? Yes, so if you sit through the credits, be prepared for a very long one.

You might be asking: “But Siti, are there anything that you don’t like about the movie?” Well, there is – loopholes. As I mentioned earlier, the point of Wolverine going back to the ’70s was to stop Mystique from killing Trask, which led to her getting captured, experimented on and killed. I’m assuming that all of that was in the ’70s. We have watched X-Men 3: The Last Stand. We all know that Mystique was well alive. So, how can she be dead if she was alive in The Last Stand? Unless she was brought back alive somewhere between when she was apparently killed until The Last Stand. But I still can’t wrap my head around that. But like I said, you have to come in with an open mind and just throw everything that you have watched before out the window. Otherwise, you’ll be like me – slightly confused. I suggest this as well because I have a feeling that they are doing a clean-up of sorts – the Mystique mystery (ho ho ho!) is not the only loophole in this movie.

Anyway, like any other Marvel movies, you need to sit through the very long credits and watch the teaser scene for the next X-Men movie. If you have not heard the news already, there will be X-Men: Apocalypse coming out in 2016. So, that’s the hint for ya!

I give this movie a 4.5 out of 5. It would have been a 5 if not for those damn loopholes! But this movie has equal parts action, drama and comedy so it’s thoroughly enjoyable. This is the best X-Men movie and I’ve watched all of them. Don’t miss it!

The trailer…