![]() While X-Men: First Class is nowhere near the quality and entertainment value of the second film, it's miles ahead of the last film, a film that coasted by on reputation alone and the fanboys who simply couldn't say "No" to it. and Soviet Union, a plot that leads to one of the film's more ingenious scenes involving a marvelous mix of fact and fantasy around the Cuban Missile Crisis. Schmidt, with his right hand Emma Frost (January Jones) ultimately has grand designs on creating a nuclear war between the U.S. The young mutants include the blue-skinned Raven (Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone), Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Havoc (Lucas Till) and others. Schmidt (Kevin Bacon), who murdered his mother before his own eyes. Erik Lensherr (Michael Fassbender) is a Holocaust survivor with the ability to bend metal, and who is hunting down Dr. A CIA agent (Rose Byrne) recruits the telepathic Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) to see if these mutants can be reined in and somehow actually benefit the United States. The film kicks off in the 1960's early nuclear era, with mutants becoming more commonplace and escalating tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. While X-Men: First Class does run a bit loosey-goosey in terms of faithfulness to the source material, Vaughn's direction is remarkably restrained and instead captures an almost retro-style feeling that may not get all the facts right but remains tremendously faithful to the early world of X-Men. The selection of Matthew Vaughn, who directed last year's freakishly entertaining Kick-Ass, may very well have frightened true devotees of the Marvel world amidst fears of an inappropriately light and satirical X-men universe. Quite simply, X-Men: First Class is a good film. X-Men: First Class is, somewhat surprisingly, a good film.not a great film.not a ground-breaking film.not on par with the better superhero films like Superman 2 or The Dark Knight. So, any review offered of an X-men film is offered as a film devotee without much regard at all to the actual history of this story and these characters. I'm just not your usual superhero, sci-fi, techno geek who can recite to you with absolute conviction the history of each of the film's characters, their strengths, their weaknesses and how the director either screwed up or absolutely kicked it in terms of faithfulness to the source material.Īs a young boy, I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I was far more into Archie comics than I was any of the Marvel universe, with the ever so slight exception of a fondness for Super-Man.
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