Unlike the booming Reunion, Marvel's other hero, the X-Men, has been in a tepid state since it debuted on the silver screen in 2000.
In the final analysis, in addition to the "X-Men" series does not have the "Film Sea Offensive" of the Marvel Universe several times a year, the quality control instability of its series is also one of the major reasons.
However, "Reverse Future" that we are going to talk about today is one of the few excellent works in "X-Men".
X-Men: Reverse Future
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > best in the series</h1>
Released in the summer of 2014, Reverse Future earned $746 million at the global box office and scored fairly well on IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Douban and other domestic and foreign websites.
The rating is quite high
Seeing this, some people may say that the box office of more than 700 million US dollars is not very high? A medium-quality "Captain Marvel" in the Marvel Universe can have a box office of $1.1 billion.
What needs to be known is that although the X-Men were more popular than the Avengers in the last century, since the new century, because the movie has been developed in general, there is no IP bonus like the Marvel Universe itself.
And compared with other films related to "X-Men", "Reverse Future" has a high box office and word of mouth, and on the box office, it only loses to the "Deadpool" series, and on word of mouth, it is only a little lower than "Wolverine 3".
In the series, the box office reputation is the top
The data is not deceptive, and the excellent results show that the movie "Reverse Future" has a lot of highlights, which makes it quite outstanding in the entire series.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > atmosphere</h1>
Whether a movie is successful, in addition to familiar factors such as stories, characters, and action scenes, there is also a point of atmosphere creation.
The so-called atmosphere, that is, the overall style category of the film, such as the atmosphere of comedy is relaxed and happy, and the atmosphere of horror films must be a little suspenseful and fearful.
Marvel's superhero movies, on the other hand, are mostly witty styles, usually heroes together, funny, fight monsters, and the atmosphere of the film is more active.
More relaxed atmosphere
But "Reverse Future" is completely different, when watching this movie, the audience will feel quite depressed, and this depression is different from the human torture impact of DC's "Batman" and "Joker" films, which is a pure sense of psychological fear.
And this oppressive atmosphere is all from the movie's villain, the Sentinel robot.
Sentinel robots
In terms of its own combat effectiveness, the Sentinel Robot is not the most powerful superhero movie, but it is the most oppressive villain in terms of the confrontation with the heroes.
This sense of oppression comes from three points.
First, the Sentinel robot itself has the ability to deform, but also has the ability to absorb mutants, and is better at using mutant abilities than the original.
For example, in the movie, the sentinel robots used sunspots (the ability is to manipulate fire) and the ability of the iceman to break each other's plots, its fire can suppress your ice, and its ice can suppress your fire.
Ice breaks fire
Absorbing the superpowers of the Steel Force, he directly transformed into the Body of Steel, and solved the battle with one punch.
One punch headshot
And because the Sentinel robot itself is not made of metal, and there is no brain, magneto and Professor X, the most powerful mutants, can't do anything about them.
Because the material is not metal, Magneto cannot control it
Strong, that is, the sentinel robot gives the audience the most intuitive feeling, and the problem is that this kind of strength is used to slaughter the mutants who are the protagonists, and the mutants have almost no power to fight back.
Second, sentinel robots are only born to hunt mutants, they have no feelings, no thoughts, in other words, many works see "villains die too much" and other plots will never appear in them.
They are ruthless, and they do not hesitate to behead mutants, split corpses, and open their stomachs.
Directly split the steel Lux into corpses
A villain like Thanos, although he is also very strong in combat, will not give people a feeling of absolute ruthlessness, because he can talk, have thoughts, and have feelings.
Thanos is a villain who has feelings
But the Sentinel robot is the exception, and in the eyes of these cold machines, there is only one instruction to kill the mutants.
Third, the Sentinel robot is not one, nor a team, but thousands of numbers.
The mountains are everywhere
Fourth, the Sentinel robot has a tracking function, no matter where the mutants hide, sooner or later they will be found, also because at the beginning of the movie, the fleeing mutants can only take the method of sending a person back to the past not long ago to let the team evacuate early.
Because for them, the whole world is no longer safe.
Wherever you flee, you will be chased
Emotionless and thoughtless, it will only hunt the cold robot born of the protagonist group, and the number is amazing, it can be tracked, and no matter where the protagonist group escapes, it will be found and tortured.
For mutants, in the face of this group of black demons, they can't escape, they can't fight, it's useless to ask for forgiveness, they don't negotiate, they will die if they resist, and they will die if they don't resist.
Black Devil
Given that the mutants are the protagonists of the movie, the audience will naturally have a sense of substitution, and in their midst, they can completely feel the huge sense of oppression created by the sentry robot, which can make the audience understand the main line of the story, that is, the necessity of returning to the past to change history.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > role</h1>
In most group portrait plays, it is very difficult to completely "make the best use of every character", and there are often some characters who can still dig up, or can have a greater role in the film, but in the end they do nothing because of the needs of the plot.
Group portrait drama
Another advantage of "Reverse Future" is that the utilization of the role is very high, and none of the characters appearing in the whole movie are wasteful, and they basically play their own role.
The main characters are responsible for driving the plot forward, needless to say.
The main characters
The supporting roles of the mutants, the inside of the play is responsible for delaying the sentry robot and buying more time for Wolverine to change history; outside the play, it brings a tragic perception to the audience and mobilizes their emotions by being brutally killed by the sentry robot.
Minor characters
The human camp is focused on one of the biggest questions, why do humans have to eliminate mutants?
Through the interpretation of characters such as Stryker, Trask, and the president, the reason given by the film is that "they are harmful to human beings", which is more thought-provoking than the template answer of "because they are powerful" in the series.
If mutants appeared in the real world, should humans?
The main characters are responsible for driving the story, the secondary characters are responsible for the enrichment of the story, and all the characters are completely part of the story, without any superfluous existence, which is a highlight of "Reverse Future".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > developmental</h1>
In terms of positioning, "Reverse Future" belongs to the work of inheriting the past and the future, because the story is to change history, in other words, the "X-Men" series after this film is a new timeline.
Therefore, the film itself needs to have a certain degree of development, but because the story is already very complete, the film puts this heavy responsibility on a character, that is, the witch.
The Witch
In the films before the series, mutants were basically divided into two camps, namely Professor X's Doves and Magneto's Hawks, while The Wonder Woman was divided into Magneto.
However, in "Reverse Future", The Shaped Woman shows for the first time the tendency to "stand on another mountain", given that Magneto killed her in order not to let her DNA fall into the hands of humans, it can be seen that even after the crisis is over, the Magic Woman can no longer join the Magneto camp like the old timeline.
Magneto kills the Demon Woman
Secondly, at the end of the movie, The Shaped Woman even pretended to be the villain Stryker to rescue the drowning Wolverine, so in the new timeline, in fact, it can still be expected that the Shaped Woman and the amnesiac Wolverine will become the third camp of the mutants, and this camp is not hawkish, not dove, and belongs to a gray faction.
It was the Witch who rescued Wolverine
The drama of the three forces is obviously more interesting than the confrontation between the two parties.
Of course, later because of Fox's planning changes, "Apocalypse" ate the Easter egg of the magic woman to save Wolverine, and changed to the real Stryker captured Wolverine, so the so-called third-party forces also disappeared, but this is already an extra-dramatic matter, and has nothing to do with the plot of "Reverse Future" itself.
In the sequel, "Apocalypse", it becomes the real Stryker
As a work that links the old and the new timeline, it is both the end and the beginning, and Reverse Future is a good foundation for this beginning.
In any case, with Fox being acquired by Disney, the story of the old X-Men is over.
And look at how much light the mutants who return to marvel can bloom in the future.