XMen: Days of Future Past 2

X-Men: Days of Future Past” (2014) is a superhero film directed by Bryan Singer and is the seventh installment in the X-Men film series. It serves as both a continuation of the events from X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and X-Men: First Class (2011), while also acting as a reset of sorts for the continuity of the franchise. The movie adapts the popular “Days of Future Past” storyline from the X-Men comic books and involves time travel to prevent a dystopian future from coming to pass.

The film is set in two timelines: the future (2023) and the past (1973). In the future, the world has been devastated by an ongoing war between mutants and Sentinels, advanced, government-controlled robots designed to hunt and exterminate mutants. The Sentinels were created to specifically target mutants, and they evolved over time to become more lethal. As a result, mutants have been hunted nearly to extinction, and the remaining survivors, including Wolverine (played by Hugh Jackman), Professor X (played by Patrick Stewart), Magneto (played by Ian McKellen), and others, are trying to prevent the extinction of their kind.

In a desperate attempt to change the course of history, Professor X and Magneto send Wolverine’s consciousness back in time to 1973. His mind is sent into his younger self’s body, in the year 1973, where he must stop a pivotal event that will lead to the creation of the Sentinels. The event in question is the assassination of Bolivar Trask (played by Peter Dinklage), the creator of the Sentinels, by Mystique (played by Jennifer Lawrence). Her actions set off a chain of events that ultimately lead to the rise of the Sentinels and the destruction of mutants in the future.

Wolverine must convince young Professor X (played by James McAvoy) and young Magneto (played by Michael Fassbender) to work together to prevent Mystique’s assassination of Trask. However, both mutants have different motivations: Professor X is struggling with his own loss of faith, while Magneto, imprisoned for the murder of President Kennedy, has his own radical agenda.

The film follows Wolverine’s efforts to rally these two iconic figures and prevent the destruction of the future, while also dealing with the consequences of changing the past.