Bryan Signer’s
“X-Men: Days of Future Past” –- his first return to the Marvel Mutant franchise in
11 years -– has one of those plots that would jump several Marvel titles
and have me buying and reading lest I miss a twist. “Future Past” is literal as
we focus on clawed-hero Wolverine (Hugh Jackman, Marvel’s hardest working man) leaping
from 2023 to 1973 to stop an Orwellian existence started by a mad scientist (Peter
Dinklage) bent on domination. Indeed we get the heroes and villains of the two
“X-Men” time-line franchises, with seniors Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan and
sophomores James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender respectively playing hero
Professor X and (non)villain Magneto, all for one admission. Singer serves the giddiest
fun scene of the entire “X” films -- a punk speed demon (Evan Peters) breaks Magneto
out of a Pentagon cell -– but, damn it, all the time leaping and plot erasing reminds
me of the futility of so many comic books. No one dies. Watch a well-known character
perish? No worries, wait three minutes, it won’t matter. Emotional investment? Suspense? Wet fireworks. Pay up for the next chapter, please. In three-color
print, it worked. On screen? It rings empty. B-
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