故事的设定发生在当下，变种人族群遭到了前所未有的毁灭性打击，而这一切的根源是“魔形女”瑞文（詹妮弗·劳伦斯 Jennifer Lawrence 饰）在1973年刺杀了玻利瓦尔·特拉斯克（彼特·丁拉基 Peter Dinklage 饰）。在得知“幻影猫”（艾伦·佩吉 E llen Page 饰）利用穿越时空的能力帮助Blink（范冰冰 饰）等战友逃脱巨型机器人“哨兵”的追杀后，X教授（帕特里克·斯图尔特 Patrick Stewart 饰）和万磁王（伊恩·麦克莱恩 Ian McKellen 饰）达成认同，决定让金刚狼（休·杰克曼 Hugh Jackman 饰）穿越回1973年，找到年轻的X教授（詹姆斯·麦卡沃伊 James McAvoy 饰）和年轻的万磁王（迈克尔·法斯宾德 Michael Fassbender 饰）并说服他们一起阻止魔形女的行动。于是，金刚狼踏上了回到过去的旅程，但是命运会不会发生逆转，任何人都无从知晓。
One of the five sci-fi's I remember every single detail of from my earliest days as a fan. For the genre, I think it's considerably above average. The moor is nicely atmospheric. There's one of every character in the book the good guy, the bad guy, the local sheriff, the lovely damsel, her father the old professor, etc. The scene where we're looking for the first time through the window of the ship and the visitor peeks out from the other side is easily as good as the three-fingered-hand-on-the-shoulder in War of the Worlds. Nice character to the visitor, for whom, like Karloff's Frankenstein, we end up feeling some empathy .
British Army radiation drills at a remote Scottish base attract a subterranean, radioactive entity of unknown nature that vanishes, leaving two severely radiation-burned soldiers... and a bottomless crack in the earth. Others who meet the thing in the night suffer likewise, and with increasing severity; it seems to be able to absorb radiation from any source, growing bigger and bigger. What is it How do you destroy a thing that feeds on energy
