THEY just KEEP getting Better and Better
Movie Blurb by Fandango: In order to prevent a grim future in which mutants and their human
sympathizers are systematically hunted and killed by towering,
unstoppable robots called Sentinels, Wolverine (
Hugh Jackman) travels back in time to change the course of history in this sequel that finds
X-Men and X2: X-Men United director
Bryan Singer returning to the helm.
The film opens in a dark and desolate future that was set in motion
in 1973, when brilliant scientist Dr. Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage)
created a series of giant robots called Sentinels for the sole purpose
of wiping out mutants, whom he claimed were a direct threat to the human
race. Although initially programmed solely to target mutants, the
Sentinels soon began eradicating humans who possessed the DNA to breed
mutants, and eventually, any mortal mutant sympathizers. Desperate,
Prof. Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Magneto (Ian McKellen) devise a plan
to have Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) send Wolverine back to the year when
Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) assassinated Trask -- it turns out that
Mystique inadvertently accelerated the Sentinel program when she was
subsequently captured by Sgt. William Stryker (Josh Helman), who
succeeded at harvesting her DNA to make the robots more powerful than
ever before.
Upon arriving in the past, Wolverine quickly seeks out a much
younger Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), as well as Beast (Nicholas Hoult)
and Quicksilver (Evan Peters), and together they help break a young
Magneto (Michael Fassbender) out of a heavily fortified prison cell
hundreds of feet beneath the Pentagon. Meanwhile, with the help of
Havok, Ink, Toad, and Spike, Mystique is already moving in for the kill.
Although Wolverine, Beast, Charles, and Magneto manage to thwart the
assassination, Charles and Magneto once again find themselves at odds
after the latter attempts to alter the plan at the last moment, creating
a mass panic during a post-Vietnam War peace summit in Paris. And Dr.
Trask, still fuming from having had the Sentinel program rejected by
Congress, takes his proposal directly to President Nixon (Mark Camacho),
laying the groundwork for an even darker future than the one Wolverine
was sent back to prevent. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
MY REVIEW - Oh my gosh! Have they figured out how to make kick butt movies or what? I have to admit, I've seen ALL of these comic book based movies. And the first few attempts were just okay (at best). But this year, they must've gotten some good writers working on these. Let's just say, it's got action, character development, did I say action? Yep, lots of that. Family went to see it and we can honestly say - we didn't want it to end. The flipping forward and backward in time was WELL done! Bravo! Marvel. We all gave it a
5 out of 4 well because we just felt that they put a lot into this movie.
