TR Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past Is…Okay

I’ve got a feeling I’m going to be perceived as a hater for not being gaga, over-the-moon about X-Men: Days of Future Past, but, y’know – not every movie has to be the best thing ever. It’s fun to see all these cast members together (though aside from Hugh Jackman and, very briefly, Patrick Stewart, none of the old interacts with the young), but is it too much to ask for a more complicated plot that would merit this all-star line-up coming together for an allegedly epic event?

In broad, spoiler-free strokes, the plot is simply this: Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) attempts to do a particular thing, and then she attempts to do it again. There’s a fair bit of window dressing, but that’s essentially it, and it’s spelled out in the first 15 minutes.

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