The Best Magneto Origin We're Likely to Get

Rating: 10/10 (5 February 2019)

If there are two types of film that get a bad reputation from modern audiences they are remakes and prequels. X-Men: First Class can feel like both at the same time, and yet still stands as being my favourite. This is the intelligent and stylized vision that the Fox Marvel properties at the time were sorely lacking, taking the X-Men movies back to their roots in social and political commentary with a heavier focus on Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and his own origins in the holocaust. There is a sense of dark inevitability behind all the warm spirited moments between Magneto and Xavier (James McAvoy) as we know where this friendship will end up going, but its still an important chapter in their story and it takes center stage in this deep exploration of their characters.