'X-Men: First Class' is a cut above the rest
Brings the adrenaline and so much more. The prequel film uses the tried-and-true attributes of historical fiction to tell a compelling story of unlikely superheroes in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Director Matthew Vaughn has reignited this comic-book series with a singularly impressive vision.The movie opens in one of the darkest corners in the annals of history: a German concentration camp at the height of Nazi fascism. Young Eric Lehnsherr (Bill Milner) is separated from his parents in a crowd of prisoners, but the Nazi guards seem to pay no attention to the little boy’s anguish. It’s only when he bends a metal gate that the guards realize that the boy is special.
For those who know the X-Men mythology, it will come as no surprise that Eric grows up to be Magneto, a once promising X-Men who turns sour and becomes the sworn enemy of the mutants under the care of Professor Xavier. But it’s refreshing to have this one movie where Magneto and Xavier (here portrayed by James McAvoy) as competitive colleagues, two young men trying to understand their super-human abilities.
Because Magento is a quasi-hero in First Class , the movie needs a proper villain. Enter Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw, a crazed Nazi official who witnesses Eric’s metal-bending exercise and wants to harness the power for his own malevolent needs. When Eric is unable to repeat the action, Shaw kills the little boy’s mother right in front of his eyes.
As with most superheroes, there needs to be some type of family loss as a child. Batman had it, so did Spider-Man. Now Magneto finds his painful motive for using his powers for both good and evil.
Flash forward to the early 1960s. Xavier is slowly bringing together the group of mutants who will eventually become the X-Men. He’s first convinced of the presence of mutants in the world by the appearance of Raven/Mystique (a very lovely Jennifer Lawrence), his shape-shifting foster sister who dazzles with her ever-changing blue skin.
While Lehnsherr seeks revenge for his mother’s death and Xavier forms his elite group of X-Men, CIA agent Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) uncovers a nefarious plot involving an older Shaw, a colonel of the U.S. Army and some nuclear weapons. MacTaggert employs the help of Xavier and his mutant research to stop the crisis from blowing out of control.
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The $54 million for "Apes" was also the second-highest opening for any action-adventure movie this summer that didn't have the benefit of higher 3-D ticket prices. The highest? "X-Men: First Class." That movie scored even higher with critics,
Assuming Fox still intends to make a Summer 2012 release date, production on Wolverine 2 could be as rushed a process as that on this year's X-Men: First Class. That's probably frustrating news for fans who felt the X-Men prequel suffered in quality
The X-Men movie franchise needed a desperate shot in the arm, and luckily X-Men: First Class brings the adrenaline and so much more. The prequel film uses the tried-and-true attributes of historical fiction to tell a compelling story of unlikely
X-Men 3 made irreparable damage to the chronology of the series killing off Mystique, Cyclops, Phoenix and Xavier (although how he survived being blown to bits by the Phoenix baffles me) without these mutants, any Last Stand sequels would be extremely
Discussing it with Collider and Hero Complex, James McAvoy stated: “Ideally you have a story arc that lasts three movies and at the end of the third it leaves you ready for the story in X-Men 1. It would be nice to explore things in two more films.
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Well, I noticed that at the end of First Class professor Xavier loses the use of his legs. But in Worlverine, which is obviously afterwards, Professor Xavier is bald and walking. (And I kno youre gonna say that he was doing it with his mind, but bare with me) In Xmen3: The Last stand, not only is Professor X walking (and by walking I mean coming out of the car, walking into the house) he’s friends with Magneto and speaks of the school as if they founded it together. It don’t sit right with me.
I want Viola Davis to be in every movie from now on (Except the X-Men franchise. Then she'd just look silly.)
X-men First class: Boy did this movie make me go back to the x-men original serie. Loved it!
That new x men movie is the shit
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