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If we could time travel, we would have posted this review as soon as the movie was released (or even before at was released ... or even before they started filming), but being the powerless homosapiens that we are, we were forced to fulfill other obligations over the holiday weekend and did not see "X-Men: Days of Future Past" until today.
And that's really the only problem with the film - time travel. Like all other entrants in the genre - take your pick of countless "Star Trek" episodes or movies - the characters who decide that going back in time is the only way to save the present face at least a couple of unsettling questions. One, if they're so brilliant to begin with (paging Dr. Charles Xavier), why did they not think of this earlier? Two, even if the mission fails, what's to prevent them from trying at another point in their own timeline since time is so fluid?
Brush those concerns aside though, and you'll find "Days of Future Past" is a highly enjoyable addition to the Mutant Movie Series in particular and super hero movies in general. Yes, it's even better than "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," which is something I did not expect because I thought that movie had set the bar too high for summer blockbusters.
