So, I'm pretty sure that most of you remember my editoral "Stop bashing X-Men: First Class!". After that I kind of laid-low on this site but now that the movie is out and everybody likes it, I can safely write up my review for this movie.
X2 has always been my favorite X-Men film out of the bunch. This film though, I really liked and it ALMOST beat X2 for me. Let me just say it was much more enjoyable and better to watch than X3 or Wolverine.
Plot wise the movie concerns a young Professor X aka Charles. Also a young Magneto, really Erik Lensherr. They are friends til they gradually drift more and more apart as the movie goes on. The villain of the film is Sebastian Shaw.
As far as performances go, Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy really pulled it off. To the characters their peformances make us really care about them and what happens to them. Rest of the cast was outstanding. I would like to point out the actor who played Beast (I'm to lazy to look up who it was lol) as he did a fantastic job. And there's Kevin Bacon. My he stole many of the scenes he was in and was by far one of the best villains in a CBM I have ever seen, ranking up with Heath Ledger's famous Joker in The Dark Knight. Only 2 bad performances caught my eye. I did not like Rose Bryne as Moira. Also, January Jones was just awful as Emma Frost bringing no emotion or depth to the role at all. If she is in the sequel they need to either re-cast or get Jones to do a better job. The CGI effects are all great, with the acton sequences and dialog standing out. Only one other thing that bugged me was Mystique's makeup. It just looked really awful to me, I couldn't stand to look at it.
But nonetheless, Matthew Vaughn pulled off a great movie and bring me a sequel or X4. Even though I still like X2 more, this is a much needed improvement to the franchise.
9/10
