![]() Singer’s two X-Men films provide enough character development for folks like Bobby Drake and Colossus that when they’re smashed and shattered by Sentinels, it matters. It’s a complicated plot, but it works, thanks almost entirely to the fact that the two different eras of mutants are already well established. The plan involves sending the indestructible Logan (Hugh Jackman) back through time to the 1970s to enlist a borderline drug-addicted Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and a murderous Magneto (Michael Fassbender) into helping him stop the shape-shifting vigilante Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) from killing Sentinel inventor Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage), an assassination that will inadvertently trigger the events that make the future so bleak for all mutantkind. In China, the remnants of the X-Men gather together for one last shot at eradicating the Sentinel threat. ![]() But there are still X-Men in the world, operating as underground rebels. Mutants face a virtually hopeless future, with genocide all but inevitable. Shape-shifting robots called Sentinels, with the ability to reshape and react based on their targets’ strengths, roam the skies, hunting and killing every mutant they can find. In the future, mutants are rounded up and imprisoned, feared and loathed by the dominant human race. By the time Days of Future Past begins, that truce has shattered and given way to a holocaust horror show. X-Men: Days of Future Past is The Avengers of the X-Men films, the biggest and best of the bunch.From the very first film in the X-Men franchise, man and mutant have coexisted on shaky terms at best.
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