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When Bryan Singer brought Marvel's X-Men to the big screen, Magneto and Professor X were elder statesmen, but Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass) travels back in time to present an origin story--and an alternate version of history. While Charles Xavier (Laurence Belcher) grows up privileged in New York, Erik Lehnsherr (Bill Milner) grows up underprivileged in Poland. As children, the mind-reading Charles finds a friend in the shape-shifting Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) and Erik finds an enemy in Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon), an energy-absorbing Nazi scientist who treats the metal-bending lad like a lab rat. By 1962, Charles (James McAvoy) has become a swaggering genetics professor and Erik (Michael Fassbender, McAvoy's Band of Brothers costar) has become a brooding agent of revenge. CIA agent Moira (Rose Byrne) brings the two together to work for Division X. With the help of MIB (Oliver Platt) and Hank (A Single Man's Nicholas Hoult), they seek out other mutants, while fending off Shaw and Emma Frost (Mad Men's January Jones), who try to recruit them for more nefarious ends, leading to a showdown in Cuba between the United States and the Soviet Union, the good and bad mutants, and Charles and Erik, whose goals have begun to diverge. Throughout, Vaughn crisscrosses the globe, piles on the visual effects, and juices the action with a rousing score, but it's the actors who make the biggest impression as McAvoy and Fassbender prove themselves worthy successors to Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. The movie comes alive whenever they take centre stage, and dies a little when they don't. For the most part, though, Vaughn does right by playing up the James Bond parallels and acknowledging the debt to producer Bryan Singer through a couple of clever cameos. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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X-Men: First Class brings together the epic scale and action of a classic blockbuster with a character driven story that unveils the beginning of the X-Men saga--and a secret history of the Cold War and our world at the brink of nuclear armageddon. As the first class discovers, harnesses and comes to terms with their formidable powers, alliances are formed that will shape the eternal war between the heroes and villains of the X-Men universe. The British dream team behind Kick-Ass--director Matthew Vaughn and writer Jane Goldman--are joined by a stellar cast including James McAvoy (Wanted), Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds), Nicholas Hoult (A Single Man) and Jason Flemying (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) in one of the biggest comic book blockbusters.
"Genuinely first class"--The Sun
"Super-cool"--Sunday Mirror
"Unmissable 10/10"--Daily Star
"Explosive"--Total Film
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• Five deleted scenes
• Digital copy
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best X-Men film yet,
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This review is from: X-Men: First Class (DVD + Digital Copy) (DVD)
Its 1962 and the increasing tensions between the US and the USSR is putting the world on a course to nuclear war as powerful mutant Sebastian Shaw and his allies are playing both sides in an attempt to destroy humanity. Meanwhile the CIA recruit Charles Xavier to hunt Shaw down and so Charles and holocaust survivor Erik Lensherr build a team to combat Shaw and his friends.`X-Men: First Class' is easily my favourite of the X-Men films, more than making up for the underwhelming `X-Men: The Last Stand'. The film is funny, entertaining and action packed. The 1960's setting is nicely done and the special effects of the film are also very good. The casting and performances are generally quite good, although there is some accent slippage here and there, and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Kevin Bacon's performance as Sebastian Shaw. As to how this film fits in with the other films, I would say that it is something of a preboot, half-reboot and half prequel as while it does retain some things from the previous trilogy, it does ignore others (although it does ignore X-Men Origins: Wolverine totally). Overall this was a very enjoyable film and is well worth a full five stars.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
For the money a great deal.,
This review is from: X-Men: First Class (DVD + Digital Copy) (DVD)
It's always worth waiting for the price to drop on this big budget numbers and this was one you didn't have to wait too long for. I'm not implying that the movie is bad, it's great and I just feel it's even better at this price. Some good acting by the two leads, and all fun stuff. There is a lot though that gets in the way of dispensing with belief. At points you just feel like saying "Did anyone think the logic of that through"?
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The re-birth of the X-Men,
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This review is from: X-Men: First Class (DVD + Digital Copy) (DVD)
I saw the movie at the cinema on the first day of release and was blown away, the DVD although very light on extras, just a few extended scenes, is superb.Forget about the Marvel comics history and any time-line inconsistencies with the other X-Men movies and just enjoy it for what it is, a valiant attempt to knit together an original version of the birth of the X-men and what drove Charles and Erik apart set against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis. It ties in well with several elements from the first movie, the concentration camp scenes and the fact that Charles and Erik were once close friends but to its credit it delves into the past of other major characters especially Mystique and Beast but also Banshee, Havok and not forgetting Emma Frost and Moira MacTaggert. Kevin Bacon is well cast as Sebastian shaw, no Hellfire Club but a credible background story of an attempt to kickstart nuclear war in order to create mutations, the children of the atom. I won't grumble at the lack of others from the club as most of Emma Frost's appearances are quite memorable. Not all the new to the screen mutant characters work but most fit into the movie fairly well. There's lots of nods towards the X-universe with brief appearances by Cyclops and Storm as well as noteable cameos by Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Romijn. Not sure where the X-Men franchise will go from here but the way the movie pans out means that there is plenty of scope for a sequel with the emergence of a new Brotherhood.
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