X-Men: First Class

3 out of 4 Pipes

James McAvoy has finally shown me that he can actually act. I have always hated him since he was in wanted but after seeing X-Men: First Class, I can no longer hold on to my hatred. The plot was a huge improvement from X-Men Origins: Wolverine and it brought the action down making it appear as a genuinely new movie and not just another comic book movie. One flaw that it had which wasn’t even really a flaw, it was just odd, was Kevin Bacon shifting from a German accented scientist to an American accented mutant seeking nuclear apocalypse. The movie begins with an early look into Magneto’s life in a German concentration camp in World War II. What impressed me about this was that it remained incredibly true to the flashback that was seen in X-Men: The Last Stand. In the previous movie Eric can be seen as a young boy being dragged away from his mother and destroying the metal gate in between them. X-Men First class has the exact same scene but they then expand on it. This is amazing for a prequel movie to incorporate a previous flashback used in an earlier movie that was set in the future. We are then introduced to mystique when she is stealing food from Charles Xavier. What is interesting about this scene and quite unrealistic is that Xavier quickly becomes her friend and then somehow her brother. One aspect I found quite interesting was that the typical vision of Magneto is that he was always a master of his power but this movie changes that view and he only masters his abilities through the help of Charles. Something that I noticed about X-Men: First Class is that it changed preconceptions that were told to us from the previous X-Men movies. The biggest of these is that according to the original movies, Celebro was said to be developed by both Magneto and Charles but in X-Men: First Class it was developed only by Beast. Granted, Celebro was destroyed at the end of the movie but it is unlikely for Magneto and Charles to get together and put it back together. First Class ended the movie magnificently with leaving a small cliffhanger; enough to leave it open for a sequel or leaving it alone with the current films.