Synopsis: Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to prevent nuclear Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-Men.
you cannot go into this movie as a comic book fan, you have to leave that part of you at home if you want to enjoy this film, otherwise you will be annoyed from beginning to end
Review (Spoilers ahead, so do not read if you plan on seeing the movie): As a fan of comic books, I try to keep a open mind about their film adaptations, so i try to leave my "comic geek brain" at home. But i couldn't do that with this film. I was hoping the Fox would take a hint from Paramount and learn how to make comic book films, but hoping didn't help at all. We'll get on the negative things first as usual, The Casting: Every X-Men fan knows that the first class consisted of Cyclops (Scott Summers), Marvel Girl (Jean Grey), Beast (Hank McCoy), Iceman (Bobby Drake), and Angel (Warren Worthington III), not Professor X (although he's the founder), Magneto, Mystique, Havok, and Banshee. And why the hell is Sebastian Shaw the person who killed Magneto's mother? We all know Nazi's are responsible for his parents death due to them being in the concentration camps. Now we'll talk about specific characters, Havok, who is cyclops' younger brother is apart of the team for some reason and not Cyclops himself, and his power which is blue comes from hands, so why were his beams red and why was this motherfucker shooting hula hoops? Someone please explain that for me. Emma Frost, pretty much accurate except for the fact that she's a very busty woman and her ability to turn into her "Diamond form" which was part of a second mutation that happened later on in life. And now we get to Darwin, Tell me how in the hell do you kill someone whose power is to survive anything and everything? So they better bring him back since this is supposed to be a new trilogy.
The positive: The story was good, it was original and fresh, Matthew Vaughn did a superb job directing this film. The special effects were awesome, mainly Beast's transformation. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender portrayed Professor X and Magneto exactly as if Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen were playing them all over again. Plus there are two cameos that you will love almost halfway through the film. The action scenes, when they do arrive, are expertly staged and edited with a clear sense of scope and geography, being both larger than life and appropriately plausible. There is a nice mix of quirky camp and deadly seriousness (even aside from the Holocaust prologue, there is some shocking violence in the picture).
So I give this movie 3 out of 5
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