This is now the 5th X-Men Live Action film, and I would argue one of the best. One might argue that the original X-Men film in 2000 helped launch the comic movie fad, but it has also been a series that I have been growing more disinterested in with every release. I gave X-Men an 8/10, X2 a 7/10, X-Men [3]: The Last Stand a generous 7/10, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine a disappointing 6/10. Maybe I liked this one so much because I expected so little, but it wasn't what I expected at all.
Of all the comic based films, this is the ONLY one that I can say I picked up an actually comic and read before it was made into a film. I watched the cartoon a little bit in Junior High, so the characters are familiar to me. Now I can confidently say that I knew everyone in the original X-Men film, but I knew little to nothing about how it all started. This film is kinda like the television show "Heroes", we start with people finding out they have special abilities at a time when no one has a clue this is possible. The abilities are creative and they all have slightly different "gifts."
The film starts in a Nazi concentration camp with Magneto as a teenage boy. His special talents catch the attention of Mr. Shaw [Kevin Bacon]. The becomes the root of his hate for humans creating what we have come to know as the "bad side" in the other films. We also get Dr. Xavier's story, from the point of him being a child with gifts and befriending Raven, to the point where they are college age. Xavier is played by James McAvoy [The Last King of Scotland & Atonement ] and Raven is played by Jennifer Lawrence [Winter's Bone].
Bacon is fantastic as a bad guy, kind of hard to even tell it is him because his German is so good you ask yourself if that really is him at first. I forgot how much I liked McAvoy in Last King of Scotland, and if you don't know Lawrence yet, I'm sure you will after next years hyped up The Hunger Games. I was very impressed by this film, thank you Matthew Vaughn [Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.] for some excellent casting, directing, and writing.
This was the summer blockbuster you should have seen, and no you don't need any prior X-Men viewing to get this film. It stands on its own very well.
Vote: 9/10
IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270798/
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