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X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Not bad but a top 100 IMDb film? really?
I cannot believe that the well informed voters on my favourite website decided to give this film a whopping 8.6 out of 10.
Firstly, the whole premise was ripped directly from Matrix, they didn't even bother to rename the sentinels.
Wolverine seems to have to be at the centre of every xmen film despite being, well, dull.
Magneto and Charles have battled do many times on film now that it is tiresome.
The real problem with the whole series is a distinct lack of any real enemy. Magneto seems to flit in and out of his anarchy to suit the plot. I like Fasbender but he was woefully underused in this film, as with the last.
A big set piece at the beginning and then a big doubler at the end with a yaw first of over an hour I between. The film has no pace, no original ideas and the set pieces have all been done before.
Disappointed.
The Lost Future (2010)
What was Sean Bean thinking?
This film falls in between two genres; proper grown up movies with proper plots and real acting, and syfy type b movie camped up dross. Sean Bean was obviously brought into add some credibility to the proceedings but must have sat in his trailer wondering what on earth he had signed up for.
As far as filming goes the camera work was competent although fight scenes were haphazard, largely to cover up a lack of effective cgi. The music was absolutely awful and added nothing to the proceedings. The backdrops were very good but weren't used very well.
The biggest problem was the huge plot holes, literally everywhere. Some more obvious ones are listed below.
SPOILER ALERT
1 Cave - mentioned by other reviewers 2 Why were they living in the open? Surely a few hundred years after civilisation was wiped out, some semblance of building skills must have remained? 3 If the cavemen were surrounded by infected beasts, where were the traps etc? to protect themselves? 4 How did half a dozen men with rope bring down a giant sloth ten times bigger than a grizzly bear? And then proceed to not eat it, despite hunting it for food? On that note, if they were out of food to take such reckless action why were all the actors do flush with health? 5 Why were Sean a beans teeth so bad when he was the civilised one, yet the main hero cavemen were perfect? 6 How did the villain make it across the chasm after the bridge was destroyed and end up in camp five minutes after they arrived? Why didn't one of the men on horseback just shoot him instead of standing around waiting for him to load up his crossbow? 7 How can there be a sub tropical climate with climbers over old buildings yet the library full of old books he dusty, with no signs of any water damage to the books there? 8 Yellow powder - mentioned before by other reviewers.
There are more but I am losing the will to live at this point so I'll leave it there.
Best avoided unless your really bored or love had movies.