When Bryan Singer was in charge of X-Men, it was so simple, which is actually quite surprising when you consider this was the man who brought us the mindbending/melting The Usual Suspect. We were in a not so distant future, allowing for some futuristic technology and a shift of political values (although oddly enough not mobile phones). Once Singer left, things didnt just go bad for Superman. Brett Ratners The Last Stand was as innocuous as youd expect from a sleazy mans Shaun Levey, but once the trilogy was over things got messy. Wolverine went to the Seventies and First Class tackled the Cuban Missile Crisis, making both deciding a viewing order and quickly discerning the ones worth watching a tricky task. But the situation were in now is nothing compared to where well be in a year. This August brings us The Wolverine, a film that was originally mooted to follow on directly from Origins, but once that bombed shifted to after The Last Stand. Then next year we get the mind bending Days Of Future Past. Based on the fan favourite comic series of the same name that brough mutants past and present together, it marks Singers return to directing mutants for the first time since X-2 . With the major cast of both First Class and the original trilogy on board, things are only just starting to get confusing.