Watched: X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014).
I feel like this film could have been great if one were watching it as part of an X-Men marathon (maybe leaving out the two Wolverine standalone films); as it is, it feels a little messy, with so many cast members getting a look-in that the focus never quite lands.
All that said, there is a story here that is certainly compelling - the dwindling X-Men numbers in the far future band together to send Wolverine back to the past, in a last-ditch effort to unite Charles Xavier (James McAvoy, on fine form here) and Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) with the aim of altering the course of history to one where mutants aren’t being wiped out wholesale. There isn’t much explanation given as to how things got quite so out of hand, and there are some sweeping plot elements that you just have to run with, but it’s a fun ride with some incredible set-pieces. Of particular note is a sequence inside the Pentagon, where Quicksilver, a mutant who can move at supersonic speeds, disarms twenty armed guards with choreography that borders on balletic.
So. Probably watch it at least as a double bill with X-Men: First Class, and if you can, couple it with the first three X-Men movies as well. Or wait for the Deadpool movie. Your call.