Director: Brian Singer

Starring: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Jennifer Lawrence, Peter Dinklage, Nicholas Hoult

Soph's rating: ****1/2

I'm a real sucker for Marvel movies so this review is probably biased. I love walking into the cinema not expecting much and coming out completely blown away. The last time I was completely blown away was after watching Captain America: The Winter Soldier and I really wasn't expecting the same reaction from this movie.

It was great to see all the characters from the older X-Men movies return (Ellen Page as Kitty, Shawn Ashmore as Bobby/Iceman) as the last time we saw them was in The Last Stand in 2006. James McAvoy was a total babe and played a tortured young Charles Xavier extremely well. Hugh Jackman put every man to shame in THAT scene (for those who have seen it, y'all know what I'm talking about!!!!!!!!!!!), and Peter Dinklage (totally screamed TYRION in my head when he came on the screen) as villain Bolivar Trask was so devilishly good I got goosebumps. And who could forget Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique. There are no words. Everyone just bow down to Queen J now.

Highlight of the movie was definitely the introduction of young Quicksilver (Evan Peters) and his totally EPIC EPIC scenes. Seriously, I was jumping in my seat from the sheer awesomeness of it all.

All in all, a totally epic movie with an epic plot (albeit slightly predictable ending) and epic fight scenes. Now we wait for Age of Ultron.

Labels: 2014, Days of Future Past, Jennifer Lawrence, movie, review, X-Men