Convinced that mutants pose a threat to humanity, Dr. Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage) develops the Sentinels, enormous robotic weapons that can detect a mutant gene and zero in on that person. In the 21st century, the Sentinels have evolved into highly efficient killing machines. With mutants now facing extinction, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) volunteers to go back in time and rally the X-Men of the past to help change a pivotal moment in history and thereby save their future.X-Men: Days of Future Past / Film synopsis

"Days of Future Past" is a storyline in the Marvel Comics comic book The Uncanny X-Men issues #141–142, published in 1981. It deals with a dystopian future in which mutants are incarcerated in internment camps.

Audience Reviews for X-Men: Days of Future Past I loved everything it did for the franchise, action films, and the superhero genre as a whole. Now, years later and many superhero films onward, it still holds up as a great film, but maybe not the landmark piece I held it up as.

For the most part, though, Days of Future Past works as a follow-up to the third X-Men movie. Based on certain plot elements that were introduced in X-Men: The Last Stand, it seems as though Fox may have been planning on making X-Men: Days of Future Past sooner rather than eight years later.

Days of Future Past is one of the very best movies in the entire X-Men canon, and also the entire reason why the timelines are so screwy; in fact, we should probably call them alternate timelines, because the way Days of Future Past works is to pretty much explicitly muddy the waters.

In the future, the mutants are dying one by one. Colossus is ripped in half by multiple sentinels. Bishop is bombarded by three of them with energy beams, overcharging him until he explodes. Warpath is killed after a sentinel grabs him, slowly moving the mutant's face into the path of its energy beam.

The closing narration clearly establishes that the past is now as mysterious as the future. Roughly paraphrased: "Everything you think happened in the X-Men universe between 1973 and 2023 might be changed now. The future sequels will not even try to have anything to do with the chronology of the original movies.

One obvious reason that Days of Future Past is considered the best installation in the franchise is the cast. Thanks to the magic of time travel, not only do we get to see the original Professor X, portrayed by Patrick Stewart, but we also get to see the young Professor X, played by James McAvoy.

"Deadpool" and "Deadpool 2" are outliers, but do take place chronologically after "Days of Future Past" in the new timeline. They can really be watched at any point after "DoFP," but it's probably easiest to watch "Apocalypse" and "Dark Phoenix" back to back.

2023 - Logan's Subconscious Is Put Into His 1973 Self (X-Men: Days Of Future Past) X-Men: Days of Future Past is part-prequel, part-sequel, as it brings back characters from the original trilogy and X-Men: First Class, as well as being a direct follow-up to The Wolverine.

Creating the multiverse means almost every Marvel inspired movie over the last 20 years is now officially MCU canon, which leads to three major problems.

Human mutants are sometimes referred to as a human subspecies Homo sapiens superior or simply Homo superior. Mutants are the evolutionary progeny of Homo sapiens, and are generally assumed to be the next stage in human evolution. The accuracy of this is the subject of much debate in the Marvel Universe.

In Logan, which takes place in 2029, it is stated that the US put chemicals in the water supply 25+ years ago that prohibited the birth of new mutants. As many have pointed out, this seemingly contradicts the ending of DOFP, where various mutants younger than 19 can be seen attending Xavier's school in 2023.

Take, for example, the most obvious issue; Jean Grey's apparent death. The reality is, though, that the end of the film deliberately suggests she isn't dead at all; rather, she has evolved, bonding with the Phoenix Force but retaining her consciousness.

In a post-credits scene, Xavier speaks to Moira McTaggert (Olivia Williams) through the body of a comatose man, implying that the Phoenix had not entirely killed him. Xavier was able to survive by transferring his consciousness into the body of a comatose patient.

Back to the Future was a critical and commercial success, earning $381.1 million to become the highest-grossing film of 1985 worldwide. Critics praised the story, humorous elements, and the cast, particularly Fox, Lloyd, Thompson, and Glover.