An Amateur Review of X-Men: First Class.

Rating: 10/10 (6 June 2011)

First things first, this movie was stunning.
Though this movie was plagued with the worst marketing ideas by FOX I have ever seen, thankfully, X-Men: First Class did not suffer the same fate of it's marketing plan. X-Men: First Class was a superhero film that didn't feel like a superhero film. With that said, it was definitely different than what one might might suspect from a "superhero movie." The best way I can describe how this movie was put together would be to say that this was like a spy film set in the 1960s with people whom happened to have superpowers.
The acting. Honestly, in my opinion, the acting was pretty solid. I believe that the actors did a wonderful job with trying to bring the characters to life, not mention the great characterizations that flowed through the movie as the film progressed. X-Men First Class provided so many powerful scenes on various levels of emotions, the acting for this movie as a whole was exceptional and well executed, in my opinion. If you were already a fan of the X-Men, you know how easy it is to take a liking to the characters, and I feel that the film does this well.
As far as the story goes, it's told wonderfully. It contains the right amount of action, intelligence, and plot development one should have expected from story writer Bryan Singer, whom directed "X-Men" and "X2" and director Matthew Vaughn whom directed "Kick-Ass." Another note to point out to the "fans" of X-Men that are sure to put this film aside is simply because of their issue with continuity in relation to the comic books. The films are respectably canon in it's own stand alone franchise, not meant to be compared to the books. The X-Men universe is a large and vast mythos consisting of over 72+ different books/series carrying the X-Men name. What I like about what Bryan Singer does with the X-Men movies, is that he transfers the characters, themes, ideas, and their purpose successfully from the X-Men universe as any adaption should be.
I'd like to take a minute to think of something negative to say about this movie, but in all honestly there isn't much to complain about. If I had to pull up something to complain about, it would probably be the slight need for me to want to have seen more development for the minor characters that didn't have much focus in the film. Another thing that came to mind would be the brief training montage only because the sequence brought back memories from Ang Lee's "Hulk." (which is not even on the same level as "The Incredible Hulk" starring Edward Norton). I believe X-Men: First Class was a respectable adaption.
All in all this was not only a good X-Men film but also a great film based on a comic book. It's not your typical movie, but it definitely competes with some of the other well known comic book movies such as Spider-Man 2, The Dark Night, Iron Man, and the new Thor movie. In my opinion, First Class exceeds previous comic book movies I've seen. I'd hate to spoil the movie from anyone, but X-Men First class was pretty groovy.
(tl;dr movie was ballin; go see it)