'X-Men Days Of Future Past' Review Roundup: Do Critics Say It's The Perfect Time-Travelling Summer Action Flick?

Following promising and exciting trailers, fans have high hopes for the newest X-Men film, which is based on a popular storyline from the comics. X-Men: Days of Future Past seems to have hit the mark big time with critics, garnering mostly positive reviews, even if the movie has a few misgivings.

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I've gathered a mix of excerpts below to give a taste of what critics are saying about the new movie, which hits theaters tomorrow.

A.V. Club, B: "For better or worse, X-Men: Days Of Future Past is the first Marvel movie to truly embrace comics-style storytelling. Context-less and origin-story-free, it presumes that its audience is familiar with all relevant character traits, continuities, and fantastic elements. It returns the genre to its geek roots; depending on the viewer, it has the potential to be the most narratively satisfying and fluid entry in the X-Men film series, or the most alienating."

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"...It's not a coincidence that, in addition to being the least newcomer-friendly big-budget movie of the year so far, Days Of Future Past is also the most narrative-driven. Juggling (and reconciling) different versions of the same characters across multiple timelines, it produces something akin to the sprawl of a decades-old superhero universe."

USA Today, 3.5/4: "X-Men's multigenerational cast is slyly funny and thoroughly compelling. The intricately plotted Marvel Comics-based tale is full of spectacle, but also playful and powerfully emotional.... The series has always been about the characters' humanity, and that resonates even more powerfully with this richly detailed installment. Audiences get a visceral understanding of the mutants' emotional experience."

"...It's an inventive blend of visuals and musical score...In its exploration of differences, this character-driven X-Men blends emotional resonance with grand spectacle, humor and intimate storytelling. Think of it as a thrill ride with gravitas."

The Washington Post, 3/4: "The plot alone, which is drawn from two issues of The Uncanny X-Men comic book series from 1980, is enough to make you want a drink. On second thought, just say no. Not to the movie--it's a gas--but to mind-altering substances of any kind. Days of Future Past is, in itself, as intoxicating as a shot of adrenaline. It's what summer movies are meant to be."

"Plus, it wipes out all those bad feelings left by Last Stand, which is widely reviled by fans as one of the worst films in the franchise (next to, of course, X-Men Origins: Wolverine). Because it involves time travel, "Days of Future Past" can set many things right that, for so many fans, went so wrong with "Last Stand." And it does."

Film.com, 7.2/10: "When Days of Future Past isn't swaggering, though, it can and does stumble. One familiar character apparently has a new mutant ability, clearly glued on without rhyme or reason to make the plot move, so lazily and badly you can see the welds; there are unnecessary scenes; and great actors like Dinklage are squandered.

"Yet even when it seems mercenary and muddled, X-Men Days of Future Past is enjoyable and well-made and actually about character, a necessary shot of adrenaline born of both inspiration and desperation for a franchise that desperately needed one."