10 Greatest Prequel Movies Of All-Time

Everybody with even a mild interest in the franchise knows that the X-Men film canon is a huge mess. As such, X-Men: Days Of Future Past is the film that asks: "Hey, what if we used this a prequel as a means of tidying things up?"

There's no use pretending that this film doesn't partly exists as a means of fixing the continuity-confused narrative that was thrown into disarray by X-Men: The Last Stand and the bad Wolverine solo movies. It does a pretty good job in fixing some niggling issues, like the deaths of characters who should never have died in the first place, even if it created a few new plot holes in the process.

Still, given how relentlessly entertaining this prequel is (the second, following X-Men: First Class), its narrative flaws can be forgiven: this is the X-Men Do Time Travel, as Wolverine finds himself enlisted by Professor X and Magneto to travel back to the '70s and prevent a coming Armageddon. Here, he interacts with their younger counterparts, and - in the process - fulfills a bunch of fanboy fantasies.

Days Of Future Past more than delivers on the promises of the also great First Class, taking its cues from the comic series of the same name and giving us the best X-Men film since 2003's X-2. Also: there's that Quicksilver slow-mo sequence, which just might well be the best scene in any X-Men film ever.