“X-Men: Days of Future Past,” is a Marvel film that follows James Logan/Wolverine from the year 2023 traveling back in time to 1973 to stop the creation of mutant-killing robots known as Sentinels which would ultimately become the extinction of mankind, while also fixing any continuity errors within each of the previous six X-Men films.

I’m just going to start this review by saying, when I first heard they were making this film and that it would be a sequel to both Matthew Vaughn’s “X-Men: First Class” and James Mangold’s “The Wolverine,” (two X-Men movies set in completely different timelines), I thought it would be a disaster.

About five minutes into the film, I was completely hooked. It was a darker, more serious film than I expected and the acting was the best I have seen in an X-Men film. And even though time travel is involved, I wasn’t lost for a second thanks to Hugh Jackman’s part in the film. The plot had enough weight to it that if the film’s protagonists failed, it would truly be the end of the world as they knew it.

I feel director Bryan Singer took this film very seriously and he did an excellent job at bringing something fresh to a franchise that’s already 15 years old, and perfectly introduced many new characters without making the film seem over-crowded.

I highly recommend this film to any sci-fi/superhero fans and advise them to stay until after the film’s credits for a teaser for Bryan Singer’s 2016 film, “X-Men: Apocalypse.”

My overall score: 9.5/10

This film stars Patrick Stewart, Sir Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Peter Dinklage, and is rated PG-13 for: Sequences of intense sci-fi violence and action, some suggestive material, nudity, and language.