Director: Bryan Singer
Starring: Hugh
Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Peter
Dinklage, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen
****
The original X-Men
director Bryan Singer returns to the franchise that rescued the superhero genre from
the campy, Day-Glo nightmare of Batman & Robin by showing that films
based on comic books could be genuinely dramatic, intellectually
stimulating and emotionally engaging, as well as action-packed and fun.
With X-Men: Days of
Future Past, he has given fans the boldest and most
ambitious entry so far.
Newcomers could find themselves occasionally feeling
lost among the in-jokes
and allusions to previous instalments. But even if you
don’t know Blink from
Beast, nor fully grasp the roots of the love-hate bromance
between Charles Xavier,
aka Professor X, and Erik Lehnsherr, aka Magneto,
there is enough
spectacle, invention and incident to keep even casual viewers
hooked until the film’s
eye-popping climax.
Read the review in full here: http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/film/review-x-men-days-of-future-past
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