X-Men: Days of Future Past

Item: X-Men: Days of Future Past
Rating: 3
Author: Frank Showalter

2014 | United Kingdom–United States–Canada | 132 min | More...

Reviewed Feb 20, 2021

A convoluted time-travel story that crumbles under the slightest introspection. But I’m hard-pressed to care given it retcons Last Stand from existence. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender wring out what little gravitas the material offers.

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