X-Men is heading in the right direction

Rating: Null/10 (11 July 2011)

After viewing this movie in theaters I have to say this may be the greatest, underrated film of the summer. This movie goes way beyond the title of a comic book movie to something of The Dark Knight's caliber. This movie hits on every level of realism you can grasp from it being incased in a fiction genre .First Class gave the audience an better outlook on the characters that call themselves X-men and the movie made back in 2000 should have taken this route instead of the road it traveled on. It didn't just throw the viewer into a movie hoping we already knew everything about these characters like X-men 1 did. It gave us a background look and understanding of these people and how they became who they were meant to be. I give this film a very high four stars and it deserves every star it receives. 1 star goes to the screen writers and the people behind crafting the script for the actors. The screen writers created a perfect blend of humor and tone setting that has not been present in the first three X-men movies. The humor is placed in right time to propel a dry moment that could have occurred or to foreshadow character relation development. The screen writers also do a great job of setting a tone that flows smoothly throughout the film. It creates a mixture of action and character building that never goes flat. This films tone is darker than its predecessors, but works quite well with the task at hand in making us understand the characters in the movie. 2 stars for the director attacking this film in the correct way and bringing this franchise up to spend with other strong comic book movies. The series before this film had a lack of understanding in my opinion. It focused too much one character (wolverine) than the team in a whole and who they really were as people. You never felt the realism or group connection between the cast. They seem to just read their lines with no emotion, but Matthew Vaughn corrected that mistake and gave birth to this masterpiece. He does a great job of bring the best out the cast and bring the most practicality out of something that is so science fiction. His future in the film industry has been set by making such a superb movie. 3 stars for the cast doing the best job I have seen in movie created in such a short time span. They bring so much emotion out of the character that they are portraying, that the audience can feel gravity of lines they are reading. Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy had such a strong connection in this film that in had seem like they have known each other for years. They out shined the other cast with their powerful connection. There was such passion when they spoke their lines that it just grabbed the audience into the movie. It was such seriousness to every word mutter out their mouth. It was so commanding and gave me as a viewer a better understanding of these two human beings and why they believed what they believe. Kevin Bacon also played a great villain that was on par with more well-known comic book villains throughout the years. He has such a sway with the way he acts on camera that it's hard not to notice his strong performance. This may be one of his greatest performances I have seen in his film career. This is a great blended cast. 4 stars on the action that never seems to slow down from the opening scene of the film to when the end of the movie. For a movie that didn't have long to shoot, they pushed out the most action I have seen in a movie since Spiderman 2. This broke open the box on what a film can accomplish in such short time. Some of the action scene seemed to drive PG-13 to its limit and felt more rated R at times.Also some credit to it have the feeling of a 60's film which is exactly what the film makers were going for. They did the best job I have seen of creating the tone of a certain period in time, making the audience believe we were thrown in the 60's with they whole make up of the film. If Matthew Vaughn can create this movie in a short amount of time and a small budget, it makes someone think what he could do with more money and more time. This movie has taken X-men franchise in the right direction and is under great leadership.