The gathering of mutants.

Rating: 6/10 (22 March 2013)

X-Men, not exactly the most popular of comic book superheros, have a faithful following; and this flick is about the first assembling of young mutants and the developing of individual powers as Charles Xavier forms his mutant training academy. James McAvoy is Professor X and Michael Fassbender is Magneto and both are youthful and reckless. The mutants have yet to make themselves public, but when the ruthless villain Sebastian Shaw(Kevin Bacon),in 1962, connives the Russians to move missiles into Cuba, Xavier and Magneto gather the small band of mutants as a covert CIA operation to use their powers to stop what would be known as the Cuban Missile Crises. Formidable skills make for a masterful climax as the world escapes a nuclear Armageddon. I am not actually an X-Men fan, but I am a fan of Jennifer Lawrence, who plays the mutant named Raven. Also in the cast: Rose Byrne, Oliver Platt, Bill Milner, Zoe Kravitz, Jason Fleming and January Jones.