Movie Title : X-Men: Days
of Future Past
Distributor : 20th
Century Fox
Runtime
: 131 minutes
Synopsis :
In a dystopian future,
robots known as Sentinels are exterminating mutants and
oppressing humans who harbor the genes that lead to mutant offspring. In
an underground bunker in Moscow, a small band of mutants manage to
evade the Sentinels thanks to Kitty Pryde,
who can project a person's consciousness back in time.
Pryde's group rendezvous with Storm, Wolverine, Professor
Xavier and Magneto in a Chinese monastery. They decide
to send Wolverine's consciousness back to 1973 to prevent Mystique from
murdering Bolivar Trask, the designer of the Sentinels. Trask's
assassination will make him a martyr, Mystique will be captured, and her mutant
powers will be reverse-engineered and used to create the formidable Sentinels
of the future. Xavier advises Wolverine to seek out his and Magneto's younger
selves for aid.
Wolverine wakes up in 1973 and travels to
the X-Mansion,
where he encounters Xavier and Hank
McCoy. Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters is closed, most of the
students have died in the Vietnam War,
and Xavier has become a broken man. He has also lost his telepathic powers, due
to a serum that allows him to walk. Wolverine persuades Xavier to free Magneto
from a prison cell beneathThe Pentagon. They enlist Peter Maximoff, a mutant with superhuman
speed, to assist them.
Trask unsuccessfully lobbies his Sentinel program
to Congress. In Saigon,
Mystique prevents a young William
Stryker from appropriating a group of mutant GIs for
Trask's research. Mystique investigates Trask and discovers he has been
capturing and experimenting on mutants. Xavier, Magneto, Beast, and Wolverine
go to intercept Mystique in Paris.
In Paris, the Americans and Vietnamese are
negotiating the end of American involvement in the Vietnam War. Mystique
impersonates a general to infiltrate a meeting with Trask, but Xavier, Magneto,
Beast, and Wolverine arrive as she is about to kill him. Believing that the
dark future can only be avoided through Mystique's death, Magneto shoots at
her; she flees, wounded by the bullet. The ensuing altercation exposes the
mutants in front of onlookers and television cameras. Wolverine's
encounter with Stryker causes his future body to react violently, injuring
Pryde.
Although Trask is saved, the world is horrified by
the existence of mutants. President Richard
Nixon approves Trask's Sentinel program and arranges an unveiling in
Washington, D.C. Trask's scientists recover Mystique's blood from the battle
site in Paris, allowing him to research further Sentinel improvements. Magneto
intercepts the Sentinel prototypes and laces their polymer-based frames with
steel. At the mansion, Xavier stops taking his serum and regains his powers.
Through Wolverine, Xavier speaks to his future self
and is inspired to struggle for human-mutant peace once again. He uses Cerebro to
track Mystique, who is going to Washington.
Nixon unveils the Sentinel prototypes on
the White House lawn. Magneto raises the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium and
places it around the White House as a barricade, then commandeers the Sentinels
and attacks the crowd. Nixon and Trask are taken to a safe room, followed
by a disguised Mystique. Xavier, Wolverine, and Beast try to stop Magneto, but
he impales Wolverine with rebars and throws him into the Potomac
River. In the future, the Sentinels kill most of the mutants.
In 1973, Magneto pulls the safe room out of the
White House and prepares to kill Nixon. Mystique, disguised as Nixon, shoots
Magneto, and Xavier persuades her not to kill Trask and lets her and Magneto
flee. The Sentinel program is cancelled and the dystopian future is
averted. Trask is later arrested for selling military secrets.
Wolverine wakes up in the future at Xavier's school,
where he finds Pryde, Beast, Storm, Iceman, Rogue, Colossus, Jean Grey, Cyclops,
and the older Xavier alive. In 1973, Mystique, impersonating Stryker, rescues
Wolverine.
In a post-credits scene, a multitude of people
gathered in the desert bow and chant while a cloaked En Sabah Nur uses telekinesis to
construct a pyramid as four horsemen stand behind him.