“X-Men: Days of
Future Past” features more mutants than
have ever been on screen together before for a massive adventure launching us
from an apocalyptic future back into the world of the First Class team. In Days
of Future Past, a years-long world conflict between humans and mutants has
taken its toll on their numbers, and now a scant few remain, including
Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), Erik “Magneto” Lehnsherr (Ian
McKellen), Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page), and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman). Driven to
near extinction by the technological terrors unleashed by Bolivar Trask (Peter
Dinklage), the team forms a desperate plan: time travel.
Using Kitty
Pryde’s powers, Wolverine’s consciousness will be sent back into his younger
self in the 1970s, where he’ll have to track down and help the First Class
versions of the characters in order to stop Trask. But that will be even harder
than it sounds, as in this era, the X-Men team is just as disparate, with
Professor Xavier (James McAvoy) and the rest either at odds or in a low ebb.
Can the younger versions of the mutants save their future?
