So, how about that X-Men franchise. Bryan Singer made a film that caused Marvel movies to be popular, then he made an awesome sequel. But then the franchise was handed over to Brett Ratner who proceeded to shit on the X-Men. Somehow someone got it in their head to make Origins and the entire X-Men movie franchise fell apart. Enter X-Men First Class, your lord and savior. Yes, X-Men First Class was so good it not only redeemed X-Men, it obliterated the concept of a terrible prequel movie, especially after following the proof of concept Origins. Lets jump into this, shall we!
I'm just not going to mention the audience anymore unless I run into an audience that was rude or disrespectful during the film. We'll just move straight to the director of the film, Matthew Vaughn, this guy did an excellent job, all of the shots he set up in the film were mind blowing, every time a mutant did something cool it looked awesome! That being said, Mr. Vaughn is a total tease, he sets up all of this awesomeness, then takes it away almost as fast as he presents it. Guess he wants people to watch the movie over and over again to fully enjoy it... which is something I'd totally do and you should do as well!!!
This movie had some of the best casting I think I've ever seen, which is weird 'cause a lot of them are playing people who were already well casted in the other films. James McAvoy's depiction of Prof. X felt both intelligent and young, I could see Patrick Stewart being this guy as a younger man. Michael Fassbender as Magneto, same impression McAvoy left with Prof. X. Kevin Bacon as Kevin Bacon, everyone in the film is officially at a Bacon 1 on the 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon scale. Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique, no offense to Mrs. Rebecca Romijn O'Connel, but I think Jennifer Lawrence did a far better job as Mystique... and was a bit more prettier. January Jones as Emma Frost, one word for her: hot! Rose Byrne as Moira MacTaggert, forgettable character, but well acted. Nicholas Hoult, made a believable transition from nerd to beast. Oliver Platt as The Villain from 2012, naw, he was one of the good guys in this and I liked him. Ray Wise, I was surpised he was in the movie. Zoe Kravitz, Lenny should have done a version of "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" for the film, like Aerosmith did for his daughter. Caleb Landry Jones as the ginger, they're taking over the world! Lucas Till as Havok, total badass. Edi Gathegi as the token black guy, you can probably guess what happens to him. The rest I don't care to mention, but they did a really good job.
In my opinion this is the best X-Men movie out of all of them. Moment after moment was just packed with so many great things. But it wasn't a perfect movie. One of the worst parts of the film is how much they try to tie it into the main franchise when the movie in general, seems to stand alone. It's one thing to provide imagery related to the rest of the films, like Mystiques looks, it's another thing to rip off an entire scene (first scene of the film) and SPOILER have a cameo by a famous character from the other films END SPOILER. Other than that, the movie was pretty kicken, there's just something about the film that brings you into it and completely makes you feel apart of the experience. I don't know what causes it, all I know is that I usually don't get that feeling in films unless I'm watching something really good or a Christopher Nolan movie (and I love me a Christopher Nolan movie.)
Finally, I give this movie an A+. Watch it, watch it, watch it! Fan of X-Men, watch it! Fan of awesome movies, watch it! Fan of things completely unrelated to the film, watch it! Don't wait for it to come out on DvD, if you haven't seen it, get up, get to the theater, and... WATCH IT!!!! Thank you all for reading.
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