the young x men learning about their abilities during the time of the cold war cuban missile crisis

Rating: Null/10 (18 July 2011)

School is in session for the latest x men class at Professor Xavier's school for the gifted. My summer of the superhero's made a stop with the x-men first class. This action sci-fi I drama stars James McAvoy. Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, and Emma Frost. The new first class runs 132 minutes and is directed by Matthew Vaughn.
This story is set in the 1960's with Charles Xavier and Erik lensherr and the young x men learning about their abilities during the time of the cold war Cuban missile crisis. This film bring s back characters raven/ mystique played by (Jennifer Lawrence), Hank McCoy/ beast played by (Nicholas Hoult) from previous films. The first class introduces Banshee played by (Caleb laundry Jones) havoc played by (Lucas Till), Darwin played by (Edi gathegi). They are brought in by the cia to help prevent a chance at possible nuclear war aka; the Cuban missile a crisis of the 1960's that is being fueled by fellow mutant and mischief maker Sebastian Shaw and his crew of trouble making mutants.
While talking a tour of the cia hank show's Charles a machine he invented called cerebro. It s' meant to help find other people with similar powers like them. They go about finding other mutants such as Riptide( Alex Gonzalez),Angel Salvador( Zoë kravitz), Jason Flemynug Azazel), Banshee(Caleb Landry Jones), and Havock (Lucas Til). They find out that a fellow mutant Sebastian Shaw ( Kevin Bacon) and his cohorts Riptide( Alex Gonzalez) Jason Flemynug ( Azazel) and the beautiful Emma Frost ( January Jones) have their own plans to create world war 3. The struggles the x men took to learn and harness there abilities with the help of Charles Xavier was very well told.The story of magneto from the time he was a child in the prison camp to his obsession with Sebastian Shaw, who murdered his mother right in front of him as a child took on batman begins type tone.He sets out across the country to find clues and discover who he is and take revenge on Sebastian Shaw for his mother's death.
I enjoyed the films use of the script to mention the future. They had a scene where a young hank was showing Charles cerbo. Hank asks Charles are you sure you don't want to shave your head before you use it Charles say s don't touch my hair. Charles makes reference to him teaching and says before you know it I'll be old and bald. The cameos of Huge Jackman/wolverine, and Rebecca Romijn / mystique add to the appeal of the film. While Charles and Erik are out looking for mutants they come across wolverine in a bar they introduce themselves wolverine just looks at them says go F yourself. Rebbecca Romain shows up when a young mystique tries to seduce Erik and she asks do you like this side of me.
I have to admit the one thing I didn't like was Kevin bacon as a villain he didn't cut the mustard as a far being a villain. Other than that they did a great job bringing the x men franchise back to the beginning excellent script, acting , the use of old news footage to reenact the cold war. I think it was the best marvel film I have seen so far. I give the x-men first class 8 out of 10 stars.