My favorite movie of the summer. hands down.

Rating: 10/10 (24 May 2014)

I kinda knew I would probably enjoy this movie going into it, and my expectations were exceeded. This is an enjoyable take on the X franchise, it stands on it's own while taking baby steps into paying homage to the source material (let's be honest, while those original stories were iconic, the writing wasn't always great.). All actors provide performances with emotional resonance without being too heavy or overbearing. There is a nice balance of humor and drama. Even the original cast (who I have never been much of a fan of, aside from ellen page) provide a great action based counter point to the more character driven 70's characters. While there are a whole bunch of characters in this movie, the writers knew who to focus on and who to give a small amount of screen time (though more havock and rouge would have been awesome.). You really get a sense that singer and the writing team put time and effort into allowing the actors to play to their strengths in the right places. Mackavoy and Fassbender kill it in this movie. Hugh jackman is very enjoyable and inhabits the role way better than he did ten years ago. Jennifer Lawrence is very good here, and performs way better than she does in those crappy hunger games movies. Quicksilver is the most surprising highlight of this film, and kinda steals the show. Overall I think this is one of the best comic based movies ever made (sorry X2 sucks) and they didn't need to create too much collateral damage to get it done (hey magneto is very careful with that stadium ;p )