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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