10 Time Travel Movies To See Before You Die
9. X-Men: Days Of Future Past
Far and away the best team-based X-Men movie of all, Days of Future Past brings together an immense cast of characters and acting talent that is underpinned by the powerhouse trio of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, James McAvoy's Professor X and Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique. This is the film that saved the franchise.
In the dystopian 2023 (which must have seemed such an impossible fiction in the cosy confines of 2014) , the original X-Men cast of mutants are being hunted to extinction by sentinels. Their only hope is for Shadowcat to send Wolverine's consciousness back to 1973 and stop Mystique from assassinating the sentinels' creator, unwittingly becoming part of the project herself.
While the film's treatment of time travel is not the focal feature of the film, it both allows some impressive and emotional moments in bringing together the prequel and original cast, as well as providing an original take on time travel that had never before seen the light of a blockbuster feature.
It may have been a bold choice to reboot a series already in its fourteenth year, but Days of Future Past provides the best of both worlds: closure on the original timeline and full creative freedom for future entries, ideally negating past failures. Unfortunately, nobody saw Dark Phoenix coming.