X- trodinary!!!!

Rating: 9/10 (26 June 2011)

Holy cow, what a movie. Nerd Alert! Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy are superb. Each one by themselves would have made the movie terrific,when sharing the screen? Unbelievable! From to start to finish, incredible.
Kevin Bacon has never done better,Jennifer Lawrence is awesome, Rose Byrne and January Jones don't have much importance, Ray Wise and Michael Ironside were dispensable, but all in all the cast was spectacular.
The story is really well written. Kevin Bacon has a plan. Against him, the goodies work together. Their reasons different, but more or less all they want is him stopped.
Charles and Erik are interesting characters. They argue. And we can argue forever about them, and about who is right.
As you watch you desperately wish they could stay friends, but you know why they ultimately can't. Even if they themselves, in these early days, don't know it yet. To have that so perfectly captured in a
movie is part of what makes this a treat and a future classic. Aside from their relationship to each other, the movie takes time to make each of them interesting in their own right. We see Charles as a teacher, and come to understand how he impacts upon the lives of those he teaches. Some of Erik's best moments are in his comments to Mystique about her appearance, making it clear that this man has more to him than his past.
One scene where most of the supporting characters are clearly scared will certainly make you care about them for the rest of the movie. Unfortunately Sebastian Shaw's henchmen don't get anything to do except use their powers, and at the end of the story we know as much about January Jones as we did at the beginning.
The FX are crazy good,using actual sets/costumes was a good idea. There are action scenes throughout the movie, the movie grows as it continues. The first part is more story so that when the action starts you care about the characters. Deaths, back-stabbings,awesome cameos and name dropping ensues.
Awesome movie, really cool script and two incredible lead performances.
I really hope they continue to build from this story. 9/10 One of the best movies in a long long time.