Movie review – “X-Men: Days of Future Past” Premiere in Singapore

More than 4,000 fans from around Asia showed up at Shaw House in Orchard Road to catch Hugh Jackman, Fan Bingbing and Peter Dinklage walk down the blue carpet for the South East Asian Premiere of the latest installment of the X-Men movie franchise.

Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) takes a selfie with a throng of fans behind him. Photo credit: Twentieth Century Fox.

Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) takes a selfie with a throng of fans behind him. Photo credit: Twentieth Century Fox.

The show was an engrossing watch from start to finish, and was candy galore for X-Men fans to oggle at the huge range of mutants past and present, although, some only appeared for a short glimpse.

Fan Bingbing (Blink) taking a selfie with her fans. Photo credit: Twentieth Century Fox.

Fan Bingbing (Blink) taking a selfie with her fans. Photo credit: Twentieth Century Fox.

The overall storyline is similar to that of the Terminator series of movies in that warfighters in the future travel back in time to change the course of history in order to prevent their certain annihilation from ever happening.

But the similarity ends there. Only Wolverine (Hugh Jackman, 45) gets sent back to 1973.

His mission is to look for and persuade both Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart, 73 and James McAvoy, 35) and Erik Lehnsherr (Ian McKellen, 74 and Michael Fassbender, 37) – when they were much younger – to work together to prevent the capture of Mystique/Raven (Jennifer Lawrence, 23) during her assassination of Trask (Peter Dinklage, 44).

In the original history, the humans had used her DNA and other research based on her to develop the Sentinels which would become so powerful they wiped out almost all of the mutants and sympathetic humans.

Peter Dinklage (Trask) snarls menacingly into his selfie with his fans. Photo credit: Twentieth Century Fox.

Peter Dinklage (Trask) snarls menacingly into his selfie with his fans. Photo credit: Twentieth Century Fox.

Will Wolverine succeed in bringing Professor X and Magneto to work together towards the same goal, or will they have their own agenda about how a different version of history is to be written?

Fans clamouring to take a snapshot of their idols, and reaching out to ask for autographs.

Fans clamouring to take a snapshot of their idols, and reaching out to ask for autographs.

These overarching questions and the exciting special effects kept the audience at the edge of their seats throughout the two odd hours of the movie.

Hugh Jackman signing autographs at the SE Asian Premiere of “X-Men: Days of Future Past” in Singapore.

Hugh Jackman signing autographs at the SE Asian Premiere of “X-Men: Days of Future Past” in Singapore.

“X-Men: Days of Future Past” opens in Singapore on 22 May.

Catch the movie to find the answers to see if Wolverine succeeds in his mission and simply sit back to enjoy the visual feast of special effects that is the signature of the X-Men movie franchise.

I would easily rate this movie four stars out of five.

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