Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Online. Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Movie Online. Happy to report this is a satisfying full throttle spectacular that tinkers with minds as the past and present intersect and the future of the mutants and mankind hangs in the balance. With director Bryan Singer comfortably back in the saddle, there’s a wondrous sense of scale about this ambitious Marvel adventure as the element of time travel to the 70’s offers a springboard for unbridled creativity and imagination. The plot may occasionally defy logic, but logic can be overrated; the brilliance of ideas and their execution is more than enough to make this X-Men fantasy an outright winner.

Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Online. Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Movie Online. Beginning in a bleak future where the desolate, miserable world is without hope, the story’s compass is put in train with the question ‘Is the future set; or can we change it?’ The fact that Hugh Jackman’s Logan/Wolverine, with his ability to regenerate is the one able to survive the treacherous journey through time, ensures the appealing Jackman’s presence front and centre. His mission is to change a key event in the past involving Raven/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence). The inclusion of James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender as younger versions of Patrick Stewart’s Charles/Professor X and Ian McKellen’s Erik/Magneto is inspired and both deliver magnificently. The scene when the older Charles confronts his younger self is eerily good and Fassbender as the metal-controlling mutant has carte blanche to display his considerable charisma.

Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Online. Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Movie Online. The time travel adventure begins when Logan wakes up in a water bed beside a lava lamp and a pretty girl, a Roberta Flack hit playing on the radio. The fact that he looks the same despite the 50 year leap into the past is well handled, and the challenges he faces with the young Charles (who has not acquired the wisdom of his later years) are often amusing. We are in on the joke and this is part of the film’s charms and why it has so much appeal. Evan Peters is a real scene stealer as the silver-haired Quicksilver, whose talents lie in his ability to move with incredible speed. The brilliant scene when Quicksilver’s slo-mo perspective of life is played out while everyone else freezes is the film’s highlight. He walks on walls and the miniscule is magnified as Jim Croce’s Time in a Bottle plays its haunting melody. Ah, the 70s!

Peter Dinklage is a welcome addition to the cast, as the 70s scientist whose Sentinel program designed to eliminate mutants relies on obtaining the DNA of the fabulously curvaceous Mystique. Lawrence is striking and decorative as she morphs from different personas to her shimmering blue shapely self, her body manipulated into formidable FX situations. I am still chuckling at the left of field idea that JFK was a mutant and Erik was responsible for the curved bullet that killed him. Watch out for Mark Camacho as Richard Nixon. It’s a superb cameo.

Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Online. Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Movie Online. The locations jump from New York, Moscow, China, Vietnam, Paris and Washington, where the extended and spectacular climactic sequences in front of the White House are set. This is a great example of how great special effects are used in line with the narrative and not for effects’ sake. All the X-Men characters pop up at some time or other but it’s the Big Five of Jackman, Stewart, McAvoy, Fassbender and Lawrence who keep the film’s heart pumping and elevate it to its max.

Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Online. Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Movie Online. It is a nasty future we open on, in this I’ve-lost-count-how-many-th X-Men flick: dark postapocalyptic skies and ruined cities left in the wake of the ongoing genocide of mutants and humans by robot Sentinels. The sci-fi Judgment Day has come and the Terminators aren’t even bothering to imprison survivors in the Matrix (they’re not leaving survivors, it seems). And I have to wonder, Was Days of Future Past inspired and informed by the machine apocalypses of 80s and 90s flicks? Or were those flicks inspired and informed by old 70s X-Men comics? Is it both realities simultaneously? Whoa. Anyway: There will be time travel. It’s gonna get fixed.

I don’t know how Professor Charles Xavier is alive again, in his older Patrick Stewart (Ted, Ice Age: Continental Drift) guise. Because the last time he fit into the narrative at this point, he was dead, killed in 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand. Maybe Xavier’s death got erased in some other time-travel shenanigans. There’s no attempt to explain it here, and it doesn’t really matter. He has a plan to stop the Sentinel war decades in the past, before it even begins.

Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Online. Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Movie Online. The idea is to use the powers of mutant Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page: The East, Touchy Feely) — who can send people’s consciousnesses back in time by a few days, into their own past bodies — to send Charles’ mind back to 1973, when/where he will work to stop his old friend, the shapeshifter Raven (Jennifer Lawrence: American Hustle, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire), from killing Dr. Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage [Game of Thrones, Knights of Badassdom], in a refreshingly size-blind role), who was developing the Sentinels; ironically, he could get no support from the U.S. government for his work, but his death at the hand of a mutant convinced them his project was essential. But Kitty says nuh-uh, a mind trip into that distant a past will kill the body it arrives in. Ah, but what about someone who can heal from any injury…? So the job gets turned over to Logan (Hugh Jackman: Prisoners, The Wolverine), as the only one who could survive the “journey.”

Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Online. Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Movie Online. This is where the fun really starts. And I don’t mean just because Wolverine gets to experience his own little Life on Mars retro fest back in the land of lava lamps and waterbeds. Nope: there’s a delicious beauty in the prickly Logan having to suddenly become a people person and actively work to be ingratiating while also telling an outrageous story about traveling back in time to those whose help he needs. Better still: we get an exquisite reversal the master-and-pupil dynamic Logan and Xavier once had — way back in the first film, 2000’s X-Men — when Logan was a huge personal mess and the grounded, patient Xavier tamed him (a little bit, anyway).

Now, in 1973, younger Xavier (James McAvoy: Muppets Most Wanted, Trance) is the one-man disaster, his work to help mutants forgotten, his grief over losing Raven still stinging; even his mutant power to read minds has overwhelmed him to the point where he is taking a drug to suppress it (though that’s an unintentional side effect of how it lets him walk again, after having been paralyzed by a gunshot in X-Men: First Class). And then — because they need his help, too — they have to spring Magneto (Michael Fassbender: Frank, The Counsellor) from the most secured prison on the planet. Yes, this is a lot of fun.

Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Online. Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Movie Online. Perhaps the most astonishing thing is that this movie is as elegant as it is. The plot is almost ridiculously convoluted, it crams in an absurd number of familiar characters — though some, like Halle Berry’s (The Call, Movie 43) Storm, barely get more than a line or two of dialogue, if that — and traipses all over the planet, from China to New York to Vietnam to Paris to Washington DC. But even when it’s looping back on itself — and back into previous films! — it works. (The script is by Simon Kinberg [This Means War, Sherlock Holmes], with story assists from Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn, who’d previously collaborated on First Class.)

Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Online. Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Movie Online. In retrospect, there’s surprisingly little “action,” at least on the scales we’re used to in comic-book flicks, though what there is doesn’t feel like stuff we’ve seen a hundred times before. Being able to set mutants with unusual powers against one another helps, but director Bryan Singer (Jack the Giant Slayer, Valkyrie) — returning to the franchise he launched for the first time since 2003’s X-Men 2 — also knows that a little goes a long way, and that holding off showing us something spectacular is more effective that being pornographic about it.

Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Online. Watch X-Men Days of Future Past Movie Online. It is not astonishing, given the track record of this franchise, that this latest tale of the X-Men is powerfully humanist. But this time out, it’s not only in its ongoing metaphor of “mutation” standing in for any sort of bigotry and irrational fear of people who are a little different. It’s also in its sideways scrutiny of capital-H Hope as a dialogue between the past and the future that we shape right now. The things we do now matter, and can have an impact far beyond this particular moment. Hindsight that could be acted on via time travel might be cool. But foresight works, too.