X-Men: Days of Future Past
NZ release: 22 May 2014
Violence & offensive language Rated on: 15 December 2025
What’s it about?
The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.
The facts
- Directed by Bryan Singer
- Starring Hugh Jackman (The Greatest Showman), James McAvoy (Split), Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave), Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games), Patrick Stewart (Star Trek), Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings), and Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road)
- English language
- Runtime: 132 minutes
Why did it get this rating?
This film was cross-rated by the Film and Video Labelling Body. You can find out more about cross-rating here.
Violence
This film contains stylised superhero action violence, involving fistfights, gunfights, and fighting between characters, causing bloody injuries and deaths. Battle scenes are intense, and characters are killed in various ways, but the violence is more fantasy than realistic.
Some of the strongest moments of violence include:
- During a flashforward, corpses are seen tumbling out of a container into a mass burial pit.
- Futuristic robots hunt mutants (super-powered humans), killing them all one-by-one in violent ways, such as one who is exploded into thousands of pieces by a ball of energy, and another being torn in half.
- Pictures are shown depicting mutants who have been tortured, operated on, and sewn back together in disturbing experiments conducted by an evil scientist.
- One character is executed by a bullet to their forehead.
- A character has several large metal poles impaled through his body and is then thrown into a river to drown.
Offensive language
This film contains the use of offensive language, with words like “f*ck,” “a**,” and “sh*t.”
When content stays with you:
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