Title: X-Men: First Class
Actors/Director/Anything Worth Mentioning Right Away: No, not really. It’s just another chapter in the seemingly endless movies made about these mutants.
Introduction: I got this from the library for free, ‘cause, yeah.
Location: It goes all over, so, you know, they had a budget.
Plot: This movie starts with a young Magneto being power-raped by Kevin Bacon and, well, from there it’s kind of downhill. Magneto and Charles Xavier are friends, but this movie chronicles their falling apart and choosing the good versus evil sides. It is an origins story, and yes, very easily could have been called “X-Men Origins: Magneto”, but you know, “First Class” is better than coach and apparently this movie is on a plane. My biggest complaint with this plot is that, while predictable (I mean, who really thought they’d stay friends in the end?), I really wished it was more like the X-Men Evolution animated series. This just kind of bored me. Kevin Bacon’s character paved the way for Magneto going evil, while they recruited fellow mutants such as Beast, Emma Frost, Mystique, Havok and Banshee. The funny thing is that there was one mutant they brought in called Darwin, who I’m pretty sure was made up for the movie, so of course he dies. But yeah, if this movie was made first it would have been acceptable, but putting it out after four other X-Men related movies just makes it seem like overkill.
Acting: I could just not be in touch with mainstream film, but the only actor I really recognized in this was Kevin Bacon. Of course, that is to say aside from James McAvoy, who I had a HUGE problem with playing Charles Xavier. Forget the fact that I best know McAvoy as being in that other comic book movie, Wanted, and forget that I don’t really like him as an actor in general, but they could have just found someone that fit this role better. I had no real problems with any of the other actors, just James McAvoy. Nothing was right about this guy being in this movie.
Production: Yes, it was a mega-budget film.
Sex/Nudity: No, not so much.
Special Effects: They were what you’d expect.
Overall Verdict: While I really liked the first two X-Men movies, I felt like Last Stand lacked a certain something in depth, where it just felt forced, like, “Let’s wrap this thing up so we can do something else with these characters”. Then Wolverine’s solo movie was just its own thing. But this is definitely, of all now five X-Men related films, my least favorite. Why? Mostly because I feel like it was pointless. I also feel like it’s not going anywhere, like we won’t see a lot of these same characters reprise these roles again (Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing). I wonder why when we have characters like Gambit, Cable, Bishop, Stryfe and countless others out there that have never had a movie before… Why not put them in their own movie? Or have a couple of them together at least. But, I mean, the X-Men in general just seem so burnt out. The only thing I’d really like to see related to the X-Men is a Storm origins movie done right. Otherwise, everything else in this little world here needs to be left alone for a good couple of years (Maybe even three to five).
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