X-Men first class (2011) Movie Review
Honest review by me
Bryan
Singer back to handle the movie after the previous disappointing movies, Fox
wanted to make sure that they do this right. The movie was about the life of
mutant in 1960s when US and Soviet Union was in the middle of the nuclear war
threat, a bunch of mutant tried to take advantage for their own purpose. Charles
Xavier/professor X (James McAvoy) and Erik Lensherr/magneto (Michael
Fassbender) were hired to recruit their own mutant team to fight the evil
mutants. Even though the government didn’t fully trust them, they determined to
stop them at any cost. Both Xavier and Erik have their own purposes in the
conflict. Xavier wanted to proof that mutant was not human’s enemy while Erik wanted
to finish his personal vendetta and things seemed to get worse due to Erik’s bigger
ambition.
James
McAvoy and Michael Fassbender were great in the movie. They played the iconic
characters very well and make me believe that they are the younger version of
Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart. They were both had enough screen time
without another outshined the other. I also liked the supporting casts
especially Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Lawrence. Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw was
great as a villain; he was cruel, mean, and intense. I also liked the
performance of the young and talented Jennifer Lawrence as Raven and Xavier’s
adoptive sister. She was fun, likeable, but unstable. She wasn’t that Mystique
at the time so you won’t see her kicking some asses. That makes me curious what
she’s been through to be the mystique we know in the next installment.
This is
my second favorite X-men movie in the X-Men franchise, the characters, the
action and the effects was great, the story was good, the plot was enough to
carry the movie, I’m looking forward to
see X-Men Days Of Future Past this year. Even though it wasn’t enough to redeem
its failure before, Fox is doing it right so far.
My only
problem of the X-Men cinematic universe is that it’s not consistent, in the
X-men origins we saw the young Emma Frost and old Professor-X but here Emma
Frost is all adult in the 1960s. Is she aging backwards? Or are we forced to
forget that movie? Is the one from X-men origins not Emma Frost? Then who is
she? Or is that movie’s setting was different from the rest of the X-men
franchise? I don’t know let’s just hope they pay attention to that important
detail from now on.
Review by Arwadi M
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