X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer, 2014)

Bryan Singer makes a welcome return to the helm in the clearly never-ending X-Men saga after Brett Ratner's botch-job with the main characters in the third film, a teen version by Matthew Vaughn and two stand-alone Hugh Jackman wankfests. However, the weight of all this is clearly a lot to bear: once again, Jackman has to play a more central role by virtue of his pulling power than his character would logically merit and there are just too many personae and strands to tie together, never mind then having a plot on top of that that has to somehow make feasible leaps over chasms of causality as Wolverine is sent back from a ruined future to 1973 to change history with the X-juniors. Still, it's nice to see them try gallantly, even though it hardly holds together, and having McAvoy, Stewart, Fassbender and McKellen all present alongside Jackman is a great boon. I do feel sorry for anyone who didn't grow up with the comics trying to make sense of it all, though.

6/10