`` X-Men : Days of Future Past '' has stars aplenty , but does it have what it takes to make it a summer blockbuster ? The reviews are in for the film , which stars Hugh Jackman , Jennifer Lawrence , James McAvoy and others -- and not everyone agrees on the latest installment of the `` X-Men '' series , a sequel to 2006 's `` X-Men : The Last Stand '' and 2011 's '' X-Men : First Class . '' The plot revolves around the group sending Wolverine ( played by Jackman ) into the past to try to change a calamitous future . Rolling Stone 's Peter Travers writes , `` Step up , cynics , and see the summer 2014 blockbuster that gets damn near everything right . `` OK , maybe 'Days of Future Past ' is merely a stopgap between 'First Class ' and the upcoming ' X-Men : Apocalypse , ' `` Travers continues . `` But it 's also a movie that uses action to define character and has the skills to make you care about outcasts in a society that hews spinelessly to the norm . A rousing epic of mind and heart in a summer of craven formula . '' A.O . Scott of the New York Times writes , `` In the case of 'Days of Future Past , ' the plot is as overelaborate and muddled as some of the effects . `` The logic of the story -- a time-travel pretzel that strains after the brain-teasing power of an old `` Star Trek '' episode -- requires too many variables , '' according to Scott . `` The frantic crosscutting of the culminating battles , which take place simultaneously and also a half-century apart , requires too much thought on the part of the audience because it has received too little on the part of the filmmakers . '' Chris Nashawaty of EW also references `` the pretzel-logic pop fantasia '' but takes a more positive view . `` I know all of this sounds like a tangled thicket of cosmically Big Ideas , '' Nashawaty writes . `` But Simon Kinberg 's marvelous script makes it all move with a Swiss jeweler 's precision and hum with internal logic . It 's complex without being confusing . '' The Washington Post 's Michael O'Sullivan cautions fans to not expect some questions from past films to be answered ( like how is Patrick Stewart 's Professor Charles Xavier still alive , anyway ? ) . But , he says , `` ' X-Men : Days of Future Past ' is , in itself , as intoxicating as a shot of adrenaline . It 's what summer movies are meant to be . '' Have you seen `` X-Men : Days of Future Past , '' and what did you think ? Any plans to see it this weekend ?
` ` X - Men : Days of Future Past '' came out this week . It stars Hugh Jackman , Jennifer Garner and James McAvoy . Some critics say it 's a blockbuster all right ; others question twisty storytelling .