Friday Film Frolic “X-Men: Days of Future Past” premiered last night at Reichert’s Showhouse in Othello. It stars everyone, more specifically, the cast from the 2000 original: Hugh Jackman (“Les Misérable”), Patrick Steward (TV’s “Star Trek: The Next Generation”), Ian McKellen (“The Lord of the Rings” etc.), Halle Berry (“The Call”), and cameos from James Marsden (“Hop”) and Anna Paquin (TV’s “True Blood”); plus the cast from 2011’s “X-Men: First Class:” James McAvoy (“Wanted”), Michael Fassbender (“Prometheus”), Jennifer Lawrence (“Hunger Games” etc.), and Nicholas Hoult (“Warm Bodies”). This is the seventh film for Marvel’s X-Men franchise, and the one with the most complicated plot since it involves time travel: always a tricky maneuver because of the “Time Paradox.” (If you go back in time and change it, how did you come to exist in the first place?) This time the story starts in the future, with the X-Men and their allies being hunted down by indestructible cyborgs created with X-Men DNA. One of the mutants (X-Men) has the ability to send a person back in time for a few weeks. Any longer and there’s a risk of irreversible brain and body damage. Enter Wolverine (Jackman). He has the ability to heal, and may be able to withstand the damage. So Wolverine is tasked with going back to 1973 and stop a research project that leads to the creation of the cyborgs. The trick is he is sent back to inhabit his unaware younger self (Jackman--Wolverine doesn’t age) and must get young Professor X (McAvoy) and young Magneto (Fassbender), mortal enemies, to unite and help stop the project. If successful time will assume a different course, saving the X-men and avoiding the cataclysmic results of the cyborg creations, and no one will know it except our hero. As expected “X-Men: Days of Future Past” is filled with exceptional action sequences and mind blowing special effects. The story ain’t bad either. There are so many stars in the ensemble cast that the galaxy may feel jealous. Rated PG13 for violence, Hugh Jackman’s naked butt, and one F-word. “X-Men: Days of Future Past” joins “The Other Woman,” which opens tonight, not reviewed, and “Godzilla,” reviewed earlier, at the Reichert’s Showhouse in Othello. At the Sunset Theater in Connell “Heaven is for Real” not reviewed, plays Fri. Sat., and Sun.
Posted on: Fri, 23 May 2014 18:26:29 +0000
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