X-Men: First Class (2011) – Movie Review

By Kelvin Watkins

In the early 1960s, during the height of the Cold War, a mutant named Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) meets a fellow mutant named Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender). Despite their vastly different backgrounds — Charles grew up with a wealthy family, while Erik lost his parents at Auschwitz — the two become close friends. As the world teeters on the brink of a nuclear war, Charles and Erik with other mutants join forces to save humanity. However, a situation soon tears the friends apart.

As an origin movie this film rocks, with the early days of Professor X, Magneto, and Mystique.  This film is a wonderful addition to the X-Men franchise.  Since the audience has already formed their opinions of these characters when they were first introduced in earlier films, Marvel had to take great care when making an origin film, which they seem to have mastered with this movie. The story line, the casting the acting and visual effects were as good as any of the earlier films There are some great cameos as well.  You will see the birth of the X-Men as well as the beginning of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.  Even if you are not a fan of the X-Men films, this is a good movie to see this summer.

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Author: Kelvin Watkins