Bryan Singer: His Films Ranked From Worst To Best

When Singer bailed on the X-movies two films in, the series flew right off the rails in no short order, and for a time looked unlikely to get back on track. However, thanks to Matthew Vaughn's prequel X-Men: First Class and James Mangold's The Wolverine, the mutants got their mojo back; so when the series originator returned for what promised to be the most epic X-movie yet, it was a thrilling prospect indeed.

Happily, X-Men: Days of Future Past proved a most triumphant return for Bryan Singer. I wouldn't say it's quite the finest entry in the series to date as some have argued, but it certainly comes close, and it does a great job of bringing the two alternate timelines together.

Some comics purists might have turned up their nose at Wolverine being sent back through time, rather than Kitty Pryde as in the original Days of Future Past story. From a film perspective, though, this makes perfect sense; as the most popular X-Man, it's only right that he be the one to bridge the gap between the universes.

To an extent Days of Future Past suffers the same key problem as Apocalypse; there's a lot of ground to cover and a lot of characters to incorporate, and as a result things sometimes feel a little rushed. All in all, though, the film definitely succeeds in telling the biggest X-Men story yet, delivering huge scale action and spectacle with a sense of humour. And through it all, it maintains the social conscience of the series, with Peter Dinklage's Trask as a great embodiment of an unwitting bigot who believes himself to be entirely honourable.