If You Loved X-Men: Days of Future Past, Watch These 8 Next

Days of Future Past is a time travel rescue with a crowded cast and a ruined future. These eight scratch the same itch, ranked.

Number one breaks every time travel rule and still wins. Fight me.

1. 8
   Serenity (2005)8.5

   The best mutants-on-the-run movie without a single mutant.

   A government program, a gifted girl, a crew that refuses to hand her over. It made $40.4M worldwide on a reported $39M budget and still scores 8.5.
2. 7
   Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)8.6

   Same ruined future, zero time machines to fix it.

   Days of Future Past opens in a wasteland and wants out. Fury Road lives there the whole ride. Guru's Take 9.5, despite a B+ CinemaScore that aged poorly.
3. 6
   Star Trek (2009)9.2

   The other reboot that used time travel as a reset button.

   A villain from the future rewrites the past and a whole franchise restarts. 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, though the lens flares deserve their own billing.
4. 5
   Avengers: Infinity War (2018)8.5

   Too many heroes, one villain, and it somehow works.

   Like DOFP's crowded future war, every team fights for screen time. $2.05 billion worldwide. The jokes sometimes stomp on the dread, and nobody cared.
5. 4
   Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)8.7

   Marvel's sharpest trust-no-institution movie, period.

   Released the same year as DOFP and just as paranoid about government programs hunting heroes. Movie.guru score 8.7, Guru's Take 8.6. The finale gets loud and generic.
6. 3
   X2 (2003)8.2

   Still the best X-Men movie, and DOFP knows it.

   Same director, Bryan Singer, same McKellen and Stewart chess match. 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, $407.7M worldwide. The middle drags, but the opening attack still rules.
7. 2
   Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)9.3

   The time travel movie DOFP is quietly copying.

   Someone from a doomed future comes back to stop the end of the world. Guru's Take 9.6, CinemaScore A+. Some of the kid dialogue has aged like milk.
8. 1
   Avengers: Endgame (2019)9.4

   Beats T2 here, because payoff matters more than rules.

   A heist through the timeline to fix a ruined present, just like DOFP. Movie.guru score 9.4, but Guru's Take is 7.8 because the rules collapse under one question.

$1,571 says someone draws a timeline chart in the comments within ten minutes.

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