Pro tip: Wolverine is quasi-immortal, which is why Hugh Jackman can time travel into his younger body and be jacked on both ends of the time travel trip. So, as confusing as that cold open is, you’re not missing anything. That said, the dark and gritty future narrated by Patrick Stewart was never set up in a previous movie, at least not in any tangible way.
Should you watch it?: Eh, yes? But, if you’ve never seen an X-Men movie, they are going to reference all kinds of stuff that happened in the 2011 movie First Class, which no, is not on Disney+. Basically, an X-Men movie, especially Days of Future Past is like if everyone in an Avengers movie was Mark Ruffalo or Scarlett Johansson. Here’s the thing to remember about X-Men movies they’re like Avengers movies only the actors were all way famous before and while they did X-Men, not the other way around.
Old Professor X and Magneto are played by Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan, and their younger counterparts are played by James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender respectively, who, back in 2014, were both kind of the biggest movie stars on the planet - remember that? This movie also improbably stars Jennifer Lawerence, Ellen Page, Peter Dinklage, and yes, Halle Berry in a small role. The premise is this: Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) has to time-travel back to the ’70s and help younger versions of Professor X and Magneto team-up to save the world. How does a movie get such a strange classification? If the title didn’t tip you off, this is a time travel movie. Released in 2014, at the time, this was the seventh X-Men movie made overall but was also a kind of sequel to the 2011 movie X-Men: First Class, and kind of a sequel all the other movies, too. X-Men: Days of Future Past (On Disney+ now)