X-Men: Days of Future Past Review

X-Men: Days of Future Past


Release Date: 16th May 2014 - Australia


Production Companies
20th Century Fox (presents)
Marvel Entertainment (in
association with)
TSG Entertainment (in
association with)
Ingenious Media (made in
association with)
Bad Hat Harry Productions
Donners' Company
Genre Films

Down Productions (made in association with)

Distribution
20th Century Fox Australia

Genre: Action

Rating: M

Runtime: 131 minutes


Budget: $200,000,000

Box Office Gross: $746,045,700 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary
The year is 2023, in a dystopian future where mutants and the humans who dare to help them are on the verge of extinction, massacred by invincible robots called Sentinels. Now, the remaining survivors have only one option to save the future. To do this, they sent Wolverine back in 1973 to stop the war before it even started.


Cast
Hugh Jackman - Logan/
Wolverine
James McAvoy - Charles Xavier
Patrick Stewart - Professor X
Michael Fassbender - Erik Lensherr
Ian McKellen - Magneto
Jennifer Lawrence - Raven
Darkholme/Mystique
Halle Berry - Ororo Monroe/
Storm
Nicholas Hoult - Dr. Hank McCoy/Beast
Kelsey Grammer - Beast

(Cameo) (Uncredited)

Peter Dinklage - Bolivia Trask
Ellen Page - Kitty Pryde
Shawn Ashmore - Bobby
Drake/Iceman
Omar Sy - Bishop
Daniel Cudmore - Peter
Rasputin/Colossus
Evan Peters - Peter
Maximoff/Quicksilver
Fan Bingbing - Blink
Adan Canto - Sunspot
Booboo Stewart - Warpath
Josh Helman - Major William
Stryker
Anna Paquin - Marie/Rogue
(Cameo)

Famke Janssen - Jean Grey (Cameo)

James Marsden - Scott Summers/Cyclops (Cameo)

Lucas Till - Alex Summers/
Havok

Evan Jonigkeit - Toad
Mark Camacho - U.S. President Richard Nixon

Alexander Felici - Young Mutant Scavenger

Jan Gerste - Gwen

Massimo Cannistraro - Ramone

Mike Dopud - Pinstripe Mafioso

Lee Villeneuve - Black Coast Mafioso

Andreas Apergis - Col. Sanders

Robert Montcalm - Vietnam MP Guard

Gregg Lowe - Ink
Jaa Smith-Johnson - Mutant Soldier

Alex Ivanovici - Quarantine Doctor

Alain Dahan - Quarantine Doctor #2

Freddy Bessa - Quarantine Doctor #3

Patricia Tougas - Quarantine Nurse

Michael Lerner - Senator Brickman

Chris Claremont - Congressman Parker (Cameo)

Len Wein - Congressman Davis (Cameo)

François Paquette - Congressman McCarter

Zabryna Guevara - Trask Secretary

Zehra Leverman - Mrs. Maximoff

Angela Galuppo - Pentagon Tour Guide

Milo Chang Sigel - Pentagon Young Boy

Kiana Chang Sigel - Pentagon Young Girl

Victor Cornfoot - Surveillance Guard #1

Brent Skagford - Surveillance Guard #2

Kyle Gatehouse - Penthouse Cook

John-Sebastien Cole - Mustachioed

Kitchen Guard

Stéphane Julien - Kitchen Guard

Taris Tyler - Pentagon Elevator Guard

Darryl Scheelar - Armed Kitchen Guard

Thai-Hoa Le - General Nhuan

Johnny Tran - Vietnamese Captain

Gregory Hlady - General Petrov

Dang Quoc Thinh - Vietnamese Translator

Vladimir Aksenov - Russian Translator

Jimmy Chan - Chinese Translator

Julian Casey - Peace Summit Reporter

Robert Crooks - Nixon Aide

Matt Cooke - Secretary of Defense

Tim Post - US Army General

Jason Deline - Desk Anchor

Karine Vanasse - French Emergency Nurse

Pierre Leblanc - French Reporter

Jude Beny - Female Traveler

Arthur Holden - Blue Suit Traveler

Sean Curley - Airport Backpacker

Susanna Fournier - Flight Attendant

Andrew Peplowski - White House Reporter

John Sanford Moore - White House Lawn

Reporter

Moe Jeudy-Lamour - White House Ticket Man

Harry Standjofski - Groundskeeper

Brianna Bone - Red-Haired Girl

Neil Napier - Secret Service Agent

Jason Koehler - White House Stage Guard

Miya Shelton-Contreras - Peter's Little Sister

Mizinga Mwinga - Potomac River Cop #1

Christian Judah - Potomac River Cop #2

Brendan Pedder - En Sabah Nur (Uncredited)
Bryan Singer - Man with Small Film Camera

(Cameo) (Uncredited)

Crew
Producer/Director - Bryan Singer

Based on Marvel's "X-Men" Comics

(Uncredited)/Executive Producer - Stan Lee

Based on Marvel's "X-Men" Comics

(Uncredited) - Jack Kirby

Story/Screenplay/Producer - Simon Kinberg
Story - Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn
Associate Producers - Tom Cohen

and Derek Hoffman

Associate Producer/Unit Production Manager -

Kathleen McGill

Executive Producer/Second Unit Director -

Todd Hallowell
Executive Producer/First Assistant Director -

Josh McLaglen

Producers - Hutch Parker and
Lauren Shuler Donner

Co-Producer - Jason Taylor

Casting Directors - Andrea Kenyon,

Roger Mussenden and Randi Wells
Production Designer - John Myhre
Supervising Art Director - Michele Laliberte

Concept Artist - Henry Fong

Set Decorators - Eva Boulonne,

Gordon Sim and Ann Smart

Property Master - Simone Leclerc
Costume Designer - Louise Mingerbach

Costume Supervisors - Bob Morgan

and Blanche-Danielle Boileau
Head Makeup Artist - Norma-Hill Patton

Head SPX Makeup Artist - Adrien Morot

Mystique and Beast SFX Makeup/Prosthetics

and Full Size Sentinel: Legacy Effects -

Brian Sipe

Director of Photography - Newton Thomas Sigel

Director of Photography: Second Unit -

Larry Blanford

Aerial Director of Photography - Hans Bjerno

Aerial Coordinator - Frédéric North

Additional First Assistant "B" Camera: First Unit -

Nicolas Marion

Production Managers - Daniel Auclair and

Ashish Kukian

First Assistant Director: Second Unit -

Andrew M. Robinson
Second Unit Director - Brian Smrz
Stunt Coordinators - Jeff Habberstad,
Michael Scherer and James M. Churchman

Fight Coordinators - Renae Moneymaker and

Daniel Stevens

Special Effects Supervisor - Cameron Waldbauer

Special Effects Supervisor: Second Unit -

Steve Hamilton

Legacy Effects Supervisor - John Rosengrant

Visual Effects Supervisor - Richard Stammers

Visual Effects Supervisor: Digital Domain -

Lou Pecora

Visual Effects Supervisor: MPC - Anders Langlands

Visual Effects Supervisor: Rhythm & Hues -

Derek Spears

Additional Visual Effects Supervisor - Matt Sloan

Visual Effects Producer - Blondel Aidoo

Visual Effects Producer: Digital Domain -
Daniel Brimer

Visual Effects: Hydraulx - Colin & Greg

Strause, Erik Diles, Bill Kunin, Eric Kohler,

Nicolas Vigneau, Mark Rasmussen,

Hui-Wen Yu, Kishor Joshu, Shane Kag,

Joel Sevilla, David Michaels, Yuji Yagasaki,

Jarrod Avalos and Chris Radcliffe

Visual Effects: Animal Logic -

Sandra Beerenbrock, Tyson Donnelly,

Paul Butterworth, Miles Green and

Julien Leveudle

Digital Effects Supervisor: Digital Domain -

Nikos Kalaitzidis

Senior Animation Supervisor: Digital Domain -

Jan Philip Cramer

CG Supervisors: MPC - Sheldon Stopsack

and James Rustad

Compositing Supervisors: Digital Domain -

Joel Behrens and Michael Maloney

Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor -

Craig Berkey

Sound Designers - Warren Hendriks and

Chuck Michaels

Supervising Sound Editor - John A. Larsen

Assistant Supervising Sound Editor -

Skip Longfellow

Sound Effects Editors - Ai-Ling Lee

and Wayne Lemmer

Sound Effects Recordist - John P. Fasal

Re-Recording Mixers - Ron Bartlett

and Doug Hemphill

Additional Re-Recording Mixer - James Bolt

Film Editor/Music - John Ottman

Co-Editor - Michael Louis Hill

Composers: Additional Music - Lior Rosner,

Marcus Trumpp and Edwin Wendler

Review
So, sorry I kept you waiting for this review. I have been busy revisiting my old critiques and correcting their faults. Now I can write my review of DAYS OF FUTURE PAST after seeing it on the big screen. I was overly satisfied with the film, which confounded me at the end. I knew this was just what the director had wanted. Bryan Singer is back to being the director and rewriting history in his series. It is not that the film is a mixture of old and new, but it brings a few characters back. I assure you, they had been quite dead on the previous timeline. This movie has restored the balance of continuity since the other two films of the X-Men series, such as Origins: Wolverine and The Last Stand, weren't well-received.

Some main actors are back to play a few characters with their future and past selves. Michael Fassbender and Ian McKellen portray a duelling age comparison as Magneto, while Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy were both Professor X, young and old. Jennifer Lawrence is still the form-changing Mystique, and her character becomes as deadly as she is no longer innocent and heroic. Hugh Jackman secures his lead role as Wolverine again and continues to do a stunning job. He still retains the perfection and the character's macho exterior. I expect that in some years, he will have to retire from the role in the next Wolverine sequel very soon.

My faith in the series finally encouraged me to indulge in this new instalment. This film fulfilled Bryan's chance to restore order in the series. Don't get me started on the lesser two additions, as you know my opinion of these disappointments. DAYS OF FUTURE PAST is something that a fan would love to see. It revives the impact of the film collection.

Star rating: (10/10) Best Movie Ever

Back to Home