Every X-Men Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

Despite serious adversity, after jumping ship from the X-Men franchise at JUST the wrong time, Bryan Singer came back to seize control again and turn one of the most taxing comic book arcs into a brilliant film.

Days Of Future Past is a quite stunning achievement in balance, melding two entire casts of characters together with two separate narrative points and somehow not coming out like muddied water. The film has so many balls in the air - including new characters - that it really should have failed. That it proved to be so entertaining is testament to the director.

The action is incredible, the performances (particularly by veteran Hugh Jackman and both James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender) are great and the transitions between the timelines are a thing of beauty. Plus, in Peter Dinklage's Bolivar Trask we got a complex villain who didn't need to wade into pantomime/cartoonish waters.

It isn't perfect, of course. There's something a little uneven about Jennifer Lawrence's performance and Nicholas Hoult isn't quite the Beast we want him to be (mostly because of Kelsey Grammar's superior model), but they're pretty minor complaints in the grand scheme of things.