FILM REVIEW: X-Men: Days of Future Past

Invoking popular comic bookcrossovers, X-Men: Days of Future Past is both a throwback tale and flash-forward film one that squishes together superheroes and supervillains of two franchises.

In the latest movie, the cultural metaphors and outcast story lines of earlier instalments have been tossed aside for a comic book battle royale, according to CBC's Eli Glasner.

Despite some truly remarkable moments, one has to be a true mutant maniac to follow all the time-jumping, criss-crossing action, he adds.

Glasner offers his review in the attached video.